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Question 1-9

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."

Line Electronic music, for example—made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and

(5) electronic instruments—may include sounds that in the past would not have been

considered musical. Environmental 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 nonelectronic

instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic

(10) 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.

(15) Traditional percussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments

that used to be couriered unconvennonal in Western music—tom-toms, bongos,

slapsticks, maracas—are widelv used.

In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of

Microtones.Non-Western music typically divides and interval between two pitches more

(20) finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greter number of distinct tones,

or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Pmderecki 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

(25) 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 graphlike diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and

novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

8. According to the passage, which of the

following would be considered traditional

elements of Western music?

(A) Microtones

(B) Tom-toms and bongos

(C) Pianos

(D) Hisses

我选B, 15-17行不是提到了么tradional 了么?

但是答案是C

9. In paragraph 3, the author mentions diagrams

as an example of a new way to

(A) chart the history of innovation in musical

notation

(B) explain the logic of standard musical

notation

(C) design and develop electronic instruments

(D) indicate how particular sounds should be

produced

我选的C,答案是D

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8、虽然句子前半部分提到了,但真正描述的后半部分也提到到了以前一般不用,所以B不对。

9、是主要描述innovation的,The directional aspect of sound has

taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed

(25) at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium.

而且C肯定不对,文章中只说怎么演奏。所以选D比较合适。。

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