英语背诵美文80篇精选含翻译.doc

英语背诵美文80篇精选含翻译.doc>01 The Language of Music
A
painter
hangs his
or
her
finished
picture
on a wall,
and everyone
can see
it. A composer writes a work, but no
one
can
hear
it
until
it
is
performed.
Professional singers and players have
great responsibilities, for the
composer is utterly dependent on them.
A student of music needs as long and
as
arduous
a
training
to
become a
performer
as a medical
student
needs
to
become 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
should sound, and
they
have
to aim at
controlling these sounds with
fanatical but
selfless authority.
Technique is of no use
unless it is
combined with musical knowledge
and
understanding.
Great artist