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7页TPO 47 听力文本 Conversation 1 Listen to a conversation between a student and a music director. Stu: Ms. Harper? Dir: Yes, can I help you? Stu: Hi, my name is Eric Paterson, I’m a journalism student, Er, I want to ask you about the orchestra. Dir: I’m sorry, Eric. But the orchestra is only open to music majors. Stu: Really? Well, see… Dir: But the policy’s changing next year. After that, if you’ve taken three music courses, you will be able to audition. Stu: Well, e…, I have taken some music courses and I do play the double bass, so maybe that’s something to think about. But, actually, I was here about something else. Dir: Oh, sorry, it’s just I. I get that question all the time, so… Stu: That’s Ok. The thing is, I work for Magna, the school paper, and I’m reporting on last week’s concert. Now I went to it and I really enjoyed it. But now I’m looking for some background knowledge. Dir: Well, I can refer you to some of the students in the orchestra if you’d like a young musician’s point of view. Stu: Er, I guess that might be helpful, but I’m really looking for a little bit of scholarly perspective, some history of the music that was performed that evening, where it was originated, how it’s developed over time. Dir: Well, some of our musician’s kind of specialize in Appalachian music. In fact, that’s part of the reason we performed it. So you really should talk to them, too. Er… OK, so we were playing Appalachian music from communities in the Appalachian mountain regions of the United States. Stu: All right. Dir: Er…, Do you really think you can keep these all in your head? Stu: Oh, don’t worry. All I need are a few key facts. I’m sure I can keep them straight until I get back to my dorm. Dir: So the music is generally based on folk ballets and instrumental dance tunes. Er, It starts with Scottish and Irish immigrants who brought over their styles of music. It’s called Anglo-Celtic. Stu: So, people brought their musical traditions with them. Dir: Well, this Anglo-Celtic music was considered an important link to the past for these people, which you can see in the way that Appalachian singers sing ballets. They have a sort of nasal quality to them, like in Celtic ballets. In their new land, some of the lyrics were updated. You know, to refer to the new locations, and the occupations the settlers had in America, but at the same time, lots of ballets were still about the castles and royalty, lords and ladies, stuff like that, which is what they were about originally. Stu: Ok, and was that some sort of banjo I saw on stage during the performance? Dir: Yes, we are lucky that one of our students Steward Telford has a 19 century banjo, a real antique. He is able to play it in most of the traditional styles. Did you know that banjos are of African-American origin and that settlers in Appalachian adopted banjos for their folk music? They became very common in traditional Appalachian music, along with guitars and violins of course. But if you want to learn about that banjo, talk to Steward. Stu: That’s great, Ms. Harper. Thanks a lot. Now, can you recommend any sources where I could look up more about this? Dir: Sure, I have a great book. A student has it today, but you can borrow it tomorrow if you’d like. Conversation 2 Listen to a conversation between a student and his professor. Pro: This is not what I had in mind when I assigned a film review. Stu: It isn’t? Pro: No. What you wrote is a synopsis, detailed summary of the movie but it’s not a review. Stu: It’s not? I guess I’m a little confused cause isn’t what a film review does, you know, to describe the film? Pro: Sure, in part. But a good review has to do more. But this is probably not your fault. I’m starting to think that I should’ve explained the assignment better because, well, I got a lot of summaries and very few reviews. Stu: So, it wasn’t only me? Pro: Hardly. I just assumed that everyone would know what to do. Stu: So, er, what else is a review supposed to do? Pro: Well it should also analyze the film, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, maybe compare to other movies, even mention why the reviewer did or didn’t like it. Stu: You mean it should have been more personal? Pro: For starters, or maybe subjective is a better word than personal. Yes, it should have been more subjective. Stu: Maybe I could rewrite it? Pro: Well, I don’t know about rewriting it. Too many people seem to have missed the point. I think I may have to forgo evaluating this one. Instead, maybe we’ll just devote a class to discussing what it takes to write a good film review or maybe, hum, you know, I have a colleague who writes film reviews for the local paper. Maybe I could ask her to come to class and describe what she does and then have everyone rewrite their reviews. Stu: So, she will talk about what a film review should be like so we’d know what to do. Pro: Well, more than that. A professional film reviewer gets to see movie sometimes before they’re even released. The。












