IMG-LOGO

Câu hỏi:

22/07/2024 45

Mark the following passage and make the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question

Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments. A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional persussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music – tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas – are widely used.

In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non-Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters – closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The use of nontraditional sounds in contemporary music

Đáp án chính xác

B. How sounds are produced electronically

C. How standard musical notation has beer, adapted for nontraditional sounds

D. Several composers who have experimented with the electronic production of sound

Trả lời:

verified Giải bởi Vietjack

Đáp án A

Bài đọc chủ yếu nói về: Việc sử dụng âm thanh phi truyền thống trong âm nhạc đương đại

Câu trả lời này có hữu ích không?

0

CÂU HỎI HOT CÙNG CHỦ ĐỀ

Câu 1:

According to the passage, Patrick Gilmore did all of the following EXCEPT that he ________.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 225

Câu 2:

Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each question.

Madison Square Garden, a world-famous sporting venue in New York City, has actually been a series of buildings in varied locations rather than a single building in one spot. In 1873, P.T. Barnum built Barnum’s Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome at the corner of Madison Avenue and 26th Street, across from Madison Square Park. Two years later, the bandleader Patrick Gilmore bought the property, added statues and fountains, and renamed it Gilmore’s Gardens. When Cornelius Vanderbilt bought the property in 1879, it was renamed Madison Square Garden.

A second very lavish Madison Square Garden was built at the same location in 1890, with a ballroom, a restaurant, a theater, a rooftop garden, and a main arena with seating for 15,000. However, this elaborate Madison Square Garden lasted until 1924 when it was torn down to make way for a forty-storey skyscraper.

When the second Madison Square Garden had been replaced in its location across from Madison Square Park, the boxing promoter Tex Rickard raised six million dollars to build a new Madison Square Garden. This new Madison Square Garden was constructed in a different location, on 8th Avenue and 50th Street and quite some distance from Madison Square Park and Madison Avenue. Rickard’s Madison Square Garden served primarily as an arena for boxing prize fights and circus events until it outgrew its usefulness by the late 1950s.

A new location was found for a fourth for Madison Square Garden, a top Pennsylvania Railroad Station, and plans were announced for its construction in 1960. This current edifice, which includes a huge sports arena, a bowling center, a 5,000-seat amphitheater, and a twenty-nine-storey office building, does retain the traditional name Madison Square Garden. However, the name is actually quite a misnomer. The building is not located near Madison Square, nor does it have the flowery gardens that contributed to the original name.

The main point of this passage is that Madison Square Garden ________.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 170

Câu 3:

They asked me what did happen last night, but I was unable to tell them.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 132

Câu 4:

My mother lives next to me which is really convenient.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 128

Câu 5:

Change into passive voice: The chief engineer was instructing all the workers of the plant.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 109

Câu 6:

In a report submitted to the government yesterday, scientists _____ that the building of the bridge be stopped.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 99

Câu 7:

Look at the sky, it is going to rain. Thus, you must bring along a raincoat.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 91

Câu 8:

Since every penny of the grant … spent on equipment, we started looking for volunteers to do the cleaning.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 82

Câu 9:

That disabled boy's victory in the race set the ______ example to all students in the school.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 81

Câu 10:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Success in the academic field depends on your number of qualifications.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 78

Câu 11:

All parents are _______ to at least try to behave in ways that will give their own children an important protection

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 78

Câu 12:

He drives so quickly that I am afraid that one day he will … someone crossing the street.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 78

Câu 13:

______ the invention of the steam engine, most forms of transport were horse-drawn.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 76

Câu 14:

Sheila will inherit everything ______ her uncle's death.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 75

Câu 15:

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the underlined part that needs correction

I went into the city center today because I need to get my phone repaired.

Xem đáp án » 06/07/2023 74

Câu hỏi mới nhất

Xem thêm »
Xem thêm »