From-Composer-to-Interpreter-to-Listener-PPT课件

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Assignment
Please list several examples of great composers and creations that can represent their personality.
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➢Himself
His personality
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Para 2
“For a composer, to be of any value, must have his own personality. It may be of greater or lesser importance, but, in the case of significant music, it will always mirror that personality.”
➢Task: please paraphrase this sentence.
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Para 1
“He gives us, without relation to exterior ‘events’, the quintessential part of himself —that part which embodies the fullest and deepest expression of himself as a man and of his experience as a fellow being.”
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Jean Baptiste Lully
French court and operatic composer who once controlled court music and whose style of writing was widely imitated throughout Europe. But he has his fragility. H e w a s known to be shrewd and unscrupulous, a man of insatiable ambition.
➢be of +n.=adj.
➢mirror: reflect
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Para 2
“No composer can write into his music a value that he does not possess as a man. His character may be streaked with human frailties— like Lully’s or Wagner’s, for example — but whatever is fine in his music will come from whatever is fine in him as a man.”
From Composer to Interpreter to Listener
Wang Meng
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Aaron Copland
An American composer of film scores, opera, piano, chamber music, and other forms. Copland is best known for his ballet music (“Appalachian Spring”, 1944; “Rodeo”, 1942) and his orchestral works (“Lincoln Portrait”, 1942; “Fanfare for the Common Man”, 1942).
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Para 1
“He need not tell us a story like the novelist; he need not “copy” nature like the sculptor; his work need have no immediate practical function like the architect’s drawing.”
Music style: powerful, romantic
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Question:
Do the two composers share similar music style?
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Text Analysis
Part I (para 1—3) A composer gives us himself. Questions： 1. What does a composer give to listeners in his music? 2. What is it that the composer gives to listeners?
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Key words
➢exterior interior ➢quintessential quint+essential ➢embody embodiment
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Para 2
“Always remember that when you listen to a composer’s creation you are listening to a man, to a particular individual, with his own special personality.”
Music style: dreamy, sensory
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven was a German composer. As a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
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Richard Wagn composer of the late 19th century. He lived wildly. In spite of his princely salary, he had to flee from Vienna to avoid imprisonment for debt because he had the inveterate habits of borrowing and living on others.
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Rhetorical question
A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer (Gldeon, 2007). The answer may be obvious or immediately provided by the questioner (Richard, 2015). “You are ashamed, aren’t you?”
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Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself disliked the term when applied to his compositions.
➢Q1: Are there any similarities among these three occupations?
➢Q2: Why does the writer cite these three examples?
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Para 1
“He gives us himself. Every artist’s work is, of course, an expression of himself, but none so direct as that of the creative musician.”