Module 4

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Module 4 Music
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Western
Introduction
Musical instruments
Chinese
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konghou ??
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guzheng ??
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pipa ??
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yueqin ??
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harp ??
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lute ???
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mandolin ???
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1 Which instruments have strings? All of
them. 2 Which Chinese and western instruments
look similar? The pipa and lute the konghou
and harp. 3 Which of the instruments does the
musician hold when he/she is playing? The pipa,
lute, yueqin, and mandolin.
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Read the information about Chinese and western
musical instruments. Discuss the questions.
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1 How many of the Chinese instruments have
you heard of? 2 Do you know any artists who play
them? 3 Do you know any Chinese classical
pieces which feature these instruments? 4 Do you
like the sound of traditional Chinese music?
Give reasons for your answers.
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Reading and Vocabulary
An Interview with Liu Fang
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Words Preview
give concerts conservatory soloist repertoire inte
rpret (be) true of/for folk song
????? n.???? n.???,??? n.???? v.??,?? ????? ??
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Words Preview
n.??,?? n.?? adj.???? ???? ????? v.??,?? v.???
characteristic poetry poetic give life to (be)
the same with combine depress
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Words Preview
share feelings and ideas with make contact
with master musician compose music ambition regard
ing melody
???????? ????? ???? ???? n.??,?? prep.?? n.??
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Watch and guesswho is she?
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Pre-reading
Suppose you have an interview with her. What
questions will you ask? And then write them down.
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Reading
international music star
1974
Kunming
Canada
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
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pipa and guzheng
her mother
pipa and guzheng
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Careful Reading
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
introduces Liu Fang as well as her musical
training and background tells about Liu Fangs
musical influences and characteristics of Chinese
classical music is about Liu Fangs love for
performing live and her goals as an artist.
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Vocabulary
1 a musician who performs alone 2 a way of doing
something, for example, playing an instrument 3
another word for melody 4 an event where
musicians play 5 all the pieces of music that a
musician can play 6 a school where musicians study
soloist
technique
tune
concert
repertoire
conservatory
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Post-reading
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1during her visit to China. Who visited
China? 2 she taught me to play the yueqin. Who
taught her to play? 3 I have been living there
since then. Where has she been living?
The Queen of England.
Her mother.
Canada.
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4 each one has its special way of interpreting
the classical pieces. Each what? 5 The same is
true of my second instrument. What is true about
the second instrument?
Pipa school.
To respect traditions but add her own style when
playing.
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• 1 Traditional singing is ____.
• (a) the most important influence on Liu Fangs
  style
• (b) not such an important influence.
• 2 When people listen to her playing, ___.
• (a) they also hear her singing
• (b) they think they can hear singing
• 3 Liu Fang thinks that ____.
• (a) Chinese music is like the Chinese language
• (b) Chinese music and language use the same tones

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4 Chinese classical pieces often have poetic
titles, ___. (a) which is understandable (b)
which is very surprising 5 Empty spaces in
Chinese paintings ___. (a) are like the silent
parts of Chinese music (b) mean the pictures
have no life
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1 What does Liu Fang enjoy about performing? 2
What makes her feel depressed or lonely? 3 What
does she want to do with other musicians?
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The atmosphere in a concert hall.
When she has no concert for a long time.
Work with them.
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4 What is her ambition regarding Chinese music?
She wants to compose her own music and introduce
classical pipa, guzheng music everywhere.
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Read the words and complete the sentences with
the correct form of them.
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challenge combine interpret silence title
traditional
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• 1 She likes to _______ musical styles from east
  and west.
• 2 What is the ____ of the piece she played?
• 3 I like listening to _________ Chinese folk
  songs.
• 4 Its a great ________ to play an instrument
  like the pipa.
• 5 Sometimes there is a long ______ in the middle
  of the piece.
• 6 I like the way she _________ classical pieces.

combine
title
traditional
challenge
silence
interprets
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Language points

• 1 give concerts ?????
• give a class ??
• give/ make a speech /talk ??
• give a party/ball ????/??
• 2 graduate from ??
• ????????
• He graduated from high school last year.

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• 3 In 1996, I moved to Canada with my husband and
  I have been living there since then.
• 1996?,?????????,?????????????
• since then ever since ?????(????)???????
• ?????????,????,????????
• We met a year ago. Since then he has taught me
  English.

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• From then on after that????,???????????????
• ??????????????
• From then on he refused to talk about it.
• ???????????
• From then on he abstained from alcohol.
• ??????????????
• From then on she knew she would win.

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• 4 enough
• 1) adv.???(????????????)
• ???,???????????
• Strangely enough, he cant recognize my voice.
• ?????????
• I didnt bring a big enough bag.
• ????????????,?????????????
• Its bad enough doing this without you giving me
  orders all the time.

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• 2) adj.???,????(???????????)
• ?????????????
• We have enough sweets for children.
• ???????????????
• Do you have time enough to finish the work?

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5 It is impossible to play classical Chinese
pipa music. It is/was adj. to do sth. It is
not so easy to study English well. ??,????????????
? Apparently its much more comfortable to fly
than go by train.
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• 6 The biggest challenge is to respect the
  traditions but to add my own style.
• ????????????????????
• addto???
• ???????
• Please add some salt to the soup.
• ????????, ????????
• I have nothing to add to my earlier statement.

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• 7 The same is true of my second instrument, the
  guzheng.
• true of/for???,???
• ????,????????,?????,???????
• In Chinese, the same pronunciation with different
  tones has different meanings. The same is true
  for music.
• ??????,?????
• The same is true for our class.
• come true ????,??

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• 8 When I am playing a tune, I am singing in my
  heart.
• ????????????,??????????
• tune ??,??,??,??,??
• ?????????
• Can you sing this tune?
• call the tune ????,??
• change ones tune??????????
• in tune ??
• out of tune ??

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• 9 be similar to ??,??
• the same as ??,??
• ???????????
• Twins look the same as each other.
• 10 be connected to ???
• ??????????????
• I dont believe he is connected to the murder.

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• 11 They give life to the whole painting and they
  allow people to come into the picture, like a
  dialogue.
• ???????????,????????,????????????
• give life to ?????
• 12 Its the same with classical Chinese music.
• be the same with ????

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• 13 Listeners can experience the power and the
  beauty of the music, like enjoying a beautiful
  poem or painting.
• ?????????????,????,??????????????????????
• experience (????)??,??
• (?????)??
• lack of experience ????
• practical experience ????

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• 14 What do you like best about performing live?
• ??????????????????
• performing live ????
• live adj.??,???,?????,?????,???adv.?????
• live animals ????
• a live topic ????

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• a live performance????
• a live television program ?????????
• ??????????
• The landing on the moon was telecast live.
• 15 in public??,??
• ????,???????
• He was too shy to sing in public.
• 16 make contact with ?????

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Useful sentences

• She was born in 1974 and has played the pipa
  since the age of six.
• Shes given concerts since she was eleven,
  including a performance for the Queen of England
  during her visit to China.
• She graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of
  Music, where she also studied the guzheng in
  1993.
• 4. The same is true of my second instrument, the
  guzheng.

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• 5. Secondly, classical Chinese music is closely
  connected to Chinese poetry, so it isnt
  surprising that most classical pieces have very
  poetic titles.
• They give life to the whole painting and they
  allow people to come into the picture, like a
  dialogue.
• 7. Its the same with classical Chinese music.
• I enjoy playing and I enjoy performing in public.

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9. Since I moved to Canada, I have had
opportunities to make contact with other musical
traditions and play with master musicians.
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Who is Liu Fang?
Material

• ??????????(Montreal)???1974???????,????????,??????
  ?? ????????????????,??????????????????,???
  ??????????????????????????????,1985?,
  ?????????????,?????????????????

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Tran Van Khe ??,????,????????????????????????????
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• "Liu Fang's mastery of the pipa and the guzheng
  has established her international reputation as a
  highly talented young interpreter of traditional
  Chinese music. She aspires to combine her
  knowledge and practice of Eastern traditions with
  western classical music, contemporary music and
  improvisation, thereby creating new musical
  forms, uniting different cultures and discovering
  new audiences."

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Thank you!