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CENTAR 2A UCENJE STRANIHJEZIKA ZAGRES ‘Tamara Jowanoié ~ ENGLESKI U MUZICI SKRIPTA ZA STUDENTE MUZICKE AKADEMLIE 181 MUZICKA AKADEMUA U ZAGREBU \_CENTAR 2A JEZICNU NASTAVU FILOZOFSKOG FAKULTETA UZAGAESU ‘Sa pravaprdrta CENTAR ZA UCENJE STRANIH JEZIKA ‘Voanikova 12, agro CENTRE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES ZAGRED ‘ Rach Spt tae ENGLISH FOR MUSIC 1981 Copyright by Cnr for Foragn Lenguges Vednicove 12, Zea CONTENTS PREDGOVOR . PREFACE 1 SOUND ‘Unie 12. Sound and How We Heae i Unlt 2: PREM cee cewc seen Unit 3: Volume uslity Unit 8: Stondod Pitch ~ Intonation Unit 8: Revonanon sss ecesn Unit 6: Acourcrof Auditors NOTATION Unit 7: Musieat Notation Unit 8! Duration of Sounds Unie 9: Duration of Sounds 1 Uni 10: Notation of Pech Unie 11: Flas, Shorpe od Ni Seales Rhythm Tempo Dynami TonteSol-F UWL. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Uni 17 How Music Bonan 84 Uni 18: ey Instrumente < 87 Unit 19: The Human Voice - co Unit 20 Unt 21 Unit 22: Unit 23: Unit 24: Unit 25 WV. MUSICAL Unie 2: Uni 27: Unie 28: Unit 28: Unit 20: Unit 3 Uni 32: Unit 33: Musial esas ers) Stinged Instruments CII es Wind Inerumens Leo ras Inert 5 n Pereustion Intrument Is ‘The Orchestre CU Forms Forms Sata on Dance TheSongta creer ss Concerto. Varntons Symphonie Muse mh Opera. : Folk Mutic end Nations Winn orton V.MUSICIN BRITAIN Unit 24: Muti Gian Batore 1800... 105 Unit 35:_Vietorian and Edwardian England ~ Osis, Vaupham Witt and Holt 109 Uni 38: Msi in Britain Tedsy ~ Benjamin Briven « m2 LUST OF ITALIAN TERMS WITH PRONUNCIATION... 15 GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS 16 REFERENCES — cones 138 PREDGOVOR ENGLISH FOR MUSIC je prvenstvenonamienjenstudemima mutes, il Gepost svakome tho Ball Get I rxyoveat @ mutt Pa ene fev ‘Surha krlige alle da poutave mucky, vet da pokate kako se eglesk Jez upotrejave u tom predmetu bor tkatove, nope, odgovrs Toto via Koll we alate uvocint engeah muslin prune, te poke ‘move musky terminology, Kako se pratpestavja ds sv Rudenti stk dobro nari opég engleskon 1 ean} Kel, gramatta nile posdbro ebragena,ipaky ut aku ites ponsje ete Ukalime radon vetoowle amie Rie from kontekt, Frama to, canown je nana udibenika da prikateupotebu eng og Jozka ao sds lrazavanja U musiekim teketonma, Ro Ge pare student das rezumievanem cia {rarjovara 0 muti, Uxolo 10 Dotto, Ruder Ge motda bil potaknut! da trae | eta dre {tele {ekstove 0 muti, da rargovaraut pit wom predmetu na elesom jez. “Tamar Jovenov PREFACE * ENGLISH FOR MUSIC is intend for mudnts of music but canbe ‘ful all those who wish to red or tak wbout mae in Enon “The book does not aim at teaching the subject matter of musi, Ie ‘pom isto show how English s used Inthe stay of muse Theteors the shore sets prove 8 summary of the abject meal Tourd im most Grammatical structures are not treated saparatly because he students tre suppones to have # fay good knowledge of general English. How ‘rer, execs are provid foreach unt They ave akoys rested to & me tical contest andra at ging students presice using English Wr ommrication nthe study sf muse, "Ths, the base sim of the book i 0 develop 2 knowledge of how {English it uid ab a medium ofexpresion in move ato enale sents 0 ‘ply thisknowledge tothe comprenension of writen a spaven deoutse It thai seieved, he sodent wil be encoureged ta rewrote ad mors ‘iicut texts on music and make elective ute Engin in tahing ot ‘ating bout mei Temaca Jovarovis |. SOUND unit one SOUND AND HOW WE HEAR IT We can enjoy music and st the sme tina have very litle kaowle fof ts production. Lt us lngine we ara Ina concer all Isang to an ‘rchestre, What aretha various ep inthe rocks when begin with ech Byer playing hs Inerument and ed without enjoyment of listening fherewitan sounds? ‘Sounds ex physeal phenomena fll mini into two clase: tone an ‘Ail sounds nove tie ysl igi in wbraory motion af some 29" Vibratory motion ix Weesls and relthely compe whet we eat "i the ation i regla an rlatiely simple, th result aed in addon, # vary important pri played n music by the eben of ound = Sound travl as 3. compression wave though solids, quis and gates. 1 cannot travel through vacuum beeause there nothing thereto com ‘uence of eisarbancs inthe ae sound us, The human ear isan extort fonsitne detector Of sound waves, 1 changes the ptsture pute nt rave impulses which ae tonite to the brain, where resound eventually hear, “Fha physical properties of any tone ae: 1. frequency (go many vir tions pot second, 2 harmaniestveture, 3 amplituse of bration, and 4 Soravon. in musical scuasons, these properties are usualy taked sbout as pites, tonactour for timbre, dynamics and rhyten respectively EXERCISE A, Study the following statements carefully nd decide whathor hay ar tie or nt tru, Cores the fle atoms. 4.We cannot enioy music ues we know at about its production, 2. Sound conor travel through a vacuum. 2. All punds ae piel phenomena 4 Sore sounds oe pradued by vibration 5: Nee ithe ult of a guy vbrtor motion 5 Senos of na importance n muse 7. near und with ou tarda. °Theharmontesuctre of toe determine its ration, EXERCISE, Rephrasg. Replace the words in itace with expresions fram tha tent hin fave he sare meeing 1. We can enjoy music een i w know ary tl about 2 Many listeners kno ile aout Pow muse produced. 5th oriin of al ounces in bration of ome so. 4. Th rept of rather completed sa not regular vation is cise, 5. The absence of sound pls an important part n mee 8. Our eardrums rate becouse he a around us tured 1 Qurear detect sound wove, 8. Praguansy Ite numberof iration in a second) its pyle! propery of [EXERCISE C, Combine a stance fom column | witha sentenee fom col ‘ovo that the complete Seance maker sen! Add “tw expres enaton. EXAMPLE: | we wen to itn to 8 concert Nhwe go toa orca hal \ " 1. the vratory mation i ioe 2. ourearcuns wil yt 3. tem eno sound : tare turbans nse ae 2 oa chee pomp {eration reps ord tity Deri mane ingle ‘inate «oe hl ear eganey S.ne a sbout mse ea 8 fe tf leon EXERCISE. Group work Suge #nstble heading for ech ofthe five pargrahs oxpresing the eer iformaton offered by ‘he pragrapls Diane Your choles wth the other groupe UNIT TWO PITCH 8 the ability t0 distinguish between the hgh ‘of musiel ound. That spite Is Moh or (Ow Gapends on the frequaney (numberof vibrations pet second) of thw stn ting body, Th higher the frequency of esoune, the higher spite m6 Ipwer tha frequency, the lower pte, Inthe cat of stringed instrument, i te sing I short, 50 that it brates with high frequency, Ie wil produce a high musial rate = a note ‘mph pith, tothe ease of ind Instrument, ifthe pipe hae 0 tal ‘hear int wibrates wih high frequency, note of high pitch produce OOF courte, the vierting sing or pipe i long, 38 thatthe frogoeney ‘low, thapteh ofthe note produced tow, i humor eo ean ase moter a9 fw that the trequency of vibcation t ‘only 16 to 20 ties per acon. Wi con alo haar notes of such Nigh pitch tht the frequency of vibration Ie sout 20,000 times at second We ennot oer souncs whieh fl utade these rough fequeney Tits But sre a tras, forexampla oot and bets, can het ote of tgher pitch tan hums "The pit of sounds I ndisted by the fst seven tetra of th sph bet, For hstorizal ears the muse! alphabet saris from Gand not fem ‘ond ils arranged ths: CO © FG A , cloring again wth C, 9 producing 1B Interval from © t0C of eight notes, Thee nas ar represented bythe ‘white Keys on the plang, An itera i snply the clstence, or ference in Ditch, benween two note. The interval from C to C i called an octave, EXERCISE A, Say whathar the folowing statements are tue oF fal. erect he fle rrterert 1.-The oesterthe number of vibration er second, the higher isthe pitch of ound. J 2. Thepteh of note protucad ona ringed instrument depends on the Tangtmof he sig 2. Ith pine of wind instrament is shot the pitch ofthe note produced is tom 4, Thehuan ea ean cetect alt sounds. 5. Somme arr can heat ott of her ith han people. Theva latirs ua in Elana In th county to icin the pies of sun, 7."The int moter ofthe cctv are represented by the lack ard white keys 8, Tha pio wind instrament [EXERCISE 8, For erch description choose aterm fom the ist below to nich thet deerptin refers Spe ‘yranice iret time instamone sound 1a note of ny in 2 postion ot stone nthe sical ele 4 ange sour of» avn itch an duration §. thwaarene i leh between two notes 8 aunlty of one 5 Snoojet uted forte production of musical sounds £8. Seree of intent or foes n male EXERCISE. Exslin tow 1th pitch of a sound depends onthe frequency of the vibrating body 2. the sate produced on 9 singed nstument apenas onthe eng ot tm 2. she nite produend ona wind instrument depends ont pipe [EXERCISE D. Group work. Suget 2 sutable nding foreach ofthe pre ron Disa your choice with the oter prov, UNIT THREE, VOLUME — QUALITY ‘One of the most noileable properties of » sound sits fowdnes or Ioteonty, Very lous sounds ~ sounds of NghIntrslty ~ ean hurt the ‘Soft sounds" sounds of low interity ~ maybe very soothing tothe herr. ‘The volume of # note depends on tha smpltde of the vibration. More fr lintel vibration produces louder (r softer sounds. te PDD eh RRR RR ‘Guslty (or in French, timbre) defines the difference in tone colour ‘between tote pleyed on different instruments or sang by different lens ‘Tha "colour" of emote enables sto datlogish betwen vriousitruments Dlovieg the sama tune. Noone wil find clifeut to dinguit beta Fhe tone of e vumpe anda violin, But why? Here we core tone of te turuste phenomena, the overtones. The corer requney of note irenly the funcomettal of seit Of thet notes which ae simultaneously trast over the Dose one, These notes fe caled overtones (or partial, Cr harmonics), The reson why the overtones ar not iinet aude Is ‘he thle ttoaity ts ea than that ofthe funn. But hey er mpert tnt boceuse they determine the Guaty af» not, and they a gv Pi Taco to the tors What maker us abe to dstiogush beeen the ual of, says an obs and a hor, is Ue varying intensty ofthe overtones Owe the ‘til notes which they pay [EXERCISE A. Choose th correct ending for ech ofthe fllowing stance. 1. Sound of ow intensity are ud boat Vary oud sounds «soothe our ear 8: pleas cur ar ‘hurt our ear 23. Thavoluma ofa ound depands on oth fegueney ofthe vibration. the ampitude of the vibration, the sores a the wibraton, 4. The more intensive the vibration, the ouder the sound ote lowee he sound. the softer it the sound 5, The sama note payed on diferent netrumens sounds 6, The difernce in tone

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