Музыка в нашей жизни

Elvira Sidash

Music in our Life !

Music is very important in our life. It relaxes but at the same moment it inspires the listener .

We can hear music everywhere: in the streets, in the cars, in the parks, On TV. Sometimes even in our dreams.

I’ve found some interesting facts about the music for you

The music of primitive people.

There was not present-day music without music of the stone age. The people of the stone age did their own instruments from different things.

Probably, the oldest "music instrument" is human body. People used this sounds, for example, for hunting to warn from danger.

Music of the middle ages

  The appearance of several voices instead of traditional one voice was a real break in history of the music. They met in one tune and it was something new and unnatural.

Scientists consider that they find out the most ancient in the world musical instrument. His age makes more than 35 thousand years. Pieces of instrument, reminding a flute, were found in a cave on the south-west of Germany.

There are many types of music.

Classical music

is the art music produced in, the traditions of Western music, period from 11th century to present times .

Kinds of music

Pop

Rock

popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s.

is popular music that developed during and after the 1960s in the UK and the USA .

Rap

Soul

popular music that originated in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s, combining elements of African American music.

refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics.

R`n`B

Rock 'n' Roll

is popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s.

evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Jazz

Disko

Disco acts charted high during the 1970s, and its popularity peaked during the late 1970s.

is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in black communities in the United States.

p.134, ex. 1 ( explain the words in bold)

Effect

• a change that is caused by an event, action etc

• My parents’ divorce had a big effect on me.

Series

• a number of similar or related events or things, one following another

• He's had a series of badly paid jobs.

Revolution

• a complete change in ways of thinking, methods of working

• In the last ten years there has been a revolution in education .

Band

• group, team

• I was in every band, I was involved with every musical fine arts event.

To be base

• found, build, construct, form, use as a basis, originate in, have its origin in

• Music is based on the use of computer software programs.

Powerfull

• influential, effective, vivid

• We need something more powerful.

Empovering

• Something that is empowering makes you more confident and makes you feel that you are in control of your life

• For me, learning to drive was an empowering experience.

Compose

• to produce music, poetry, or formal writing

• Prokofiev started composing at the age of five.

Distribute

• the action of sharing something out

• They distribute their own music

Home task:

• P.134 read the text
• P.134, ex. 2, 4

Good luck