【宁波大学2011年考研专业课真题】俄语(二外)2011.pdf

01 The Language of Music
A painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can see it. poser
writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have
great responsibilities, for poser is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as
long and as arduous a training to e a performer as a medical student needs to e a
doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular
proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal
chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving
the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm --
two entirely different movements.
Singers and instrumentalists have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are
spared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano
tuner's responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties: the
hammers that hit the strings have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each
overlapping tone has to sound clear.
This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors: they have to
learn to know every note of the music and how it shou