Listen & talk:

1. How many different kinds of music are there in China? 2. Who are the best-known musical performers in China?3. What is the different between old music and modern music? Which do you prefer?

Music & World Music

Read & answer:

1.How many important kinds of music are there in the world? What are they?

2.How was music learned and taughtin the ancient times?

There are mainly two kinds of music---written down or not.

First music was not written down, it was passed down orally from one generation to another. Some old performers of music could

even learn hundreds of songs by heart.

Can you find out the key words of each paragraph?

Para.1:

Para.4:

Para.3:

Para.2:

two important kinds of music

folk music

early performers

music in the streets

1.All kinds of music were written down

at first. 2.Many people write songs just for

pleasure.

F

F

3.Folk music was not written down at first.4.Folk music was passed down from one

generation to another.

T

T

5.People usually learn folk songs from their families,relatives. neighbours and friends. T

6. Many of the early folk songs were aboutcountry life, the seasons, and about loveand sadness in people’s lives. T

7. Most Indian music is quite free and has no patterns to follow. F

What music is mentioned in the passage?Most music in Africa is ____ _____, it

____ __ ________ ____ in people’s lives, especially for work, and at ______ and ______when people dance all _____ ___. _____ music is ___ written down. But lots of modern music

__ also _____ .Caribbean music was developed by the _____ brought from _____.

West Indians ____ musical instruments ___ __ large oil ____. Jazz was born in ______ around ___. It came from work songs sung by ____

______and had its roots in _____. Jazz started

developing __ ___ _____ in the ______ states.

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There are ___ kinds of music in the world --- one is ______ ______and ___ ____ __ ___.Folk music has ____ ______ down from generationto ______. These songs were about ______ life,the seasons, ______ and plants, and about ____ and _______ in people’s lives. Early music performers used to _____ hundreds of songs __ _____. They used to act and sing in ______ of heroes on festivals. In this way, stories were _____ __ from one person __ _______.

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learn by heart

praisepassed on to another

and fill in the blanks:

written down or not; earn a living passed down from … to … learned from…; were about … popular and respected learn … by heart; in praise of performed to passers-by; coins

the short passage about music with the given words:

Is Chinese music different from world music?

Can you give me some examples?