Урок по теме: «Музыкальная гостиная. LET
THE MUSIC BEGIN»
Учителя английского языка
ГБОУ СОШ №1968
Жуковой Елены Леонидовны
Student 1: People cannot imagine their life without music. We listen to music, dance to music or learn to
play musical instruments. Music has become the part of our life. There is music everywhere: at home, in a
concert hall, in the park, at the seaside, in the forest and even in the street, on radio and TV. Music is a
word whose accepted definitions vary with time, place and culture.
In the ancient world it was thought to be magic, the voice of gods. Music is not a combination of
pleasant sounds only. It is said to be an art, or form of entertainment, which reflects our life. It is also can be
defined by contrast with noise or speech. Generally it is a kind of art, because music reflects people’s ideas
and emotions. In this world filled with conflicts, tragedies, joys and hopes, music strives to speak people of
what is most important and urgent.
Different people like different kinds of music or different genres of music. As there are many
definitions for music and there are many divisions and groupings of music. Among larger genres are
classical music and a popular or commercial music which itself can be divided into the most popular genres
of music: rock, metal, disco, pop-music, jazz, rave, hip hop etc. Anyway there enough one for every
fastidious listener and admirer; if not, there is a wide range of technical measures to create a new genre of
music.
Student 2: Ancient music pursued religious goals. (слайд 2) Ancient people were very sensitive to music.
It penetrated people’s souls. In the majority of countries musicians were clergymen or even priests and the
ability to play some musical instrument was considered sacred or divine. Improvisation was greatly
appreciated. That’s why ancient almost nothing about ancient music in the course of 3 thousand years.
Nowadays traditions of ancient civilizations in different regions of the world are treated differently.
For example Egyptian music is considered to be long outdated, whereas for and ancient music is
inseparable part of contemporary music. In the course of time new genres appeared, others –
disappeared. I suggest to start our journey with the Blues. Does somebody like the Blues?
Student 3: Yes, I do. The earlier history of the Blues is almost entirely Negro. Its musical tradition is
traced as far back as 1860s. The word “blue” has been associated with the idea of melancholia or
depression since the times of Queen Elizabeth.
When African and European music first began to merge to create what eventually became the
blues, the slaves sang song of their extreme suffering and privation.
Some «bluesologists» claim, that the first blues song that was ever written down was «Dallas
Blues», published in 1912 by Hart Wand (слайд 3), a white violist from Okhlahoma City.
Instrumental blues had been recorder as early as 1913. Mamie Smith (слайд 4) recordered the
first vocal blues song, «Crazy Blues» in 1920. During the twenties, the blues became a national craze.
Records by leading blues singers like Bessie Smith and later in the thirties, Billie Holiday (слайд 5)
were sold in million.
Since the sixties, rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Timmy Page, and Eddie Van Halen
(слайд 6) have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While B.B. King (слайд 7) and other
musicians continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition.
Student 4: It was jazz. It originated in the beginning of the 20th century in , a port in , the . Later this music
moved up the Mississippi river to and finally to . This style grew from blues motives, characterized by
complicated rhythm and bright improvisation.
Notwithstanding the fact that jazz is traditionally considered to be black music, the 1st recording of
jazz was made by 5 white musicians in . This record was a hit among the public and jazz began its victorious
journey through . gave birth to many well known jazz musicians: (слайд 8) Duke Ellington, Ella
Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and others. By the way, Duke Ellington gave his last concert at the age of 75
at ABBY and President Nixon dedicated a special party at the White House to this great musician.
Those who play jazz often say that jazz should be only felt with one’s soul. Louis Armstrong, who
was once asked “What is jazz?” answered “If you are asking this question, you are incapable to understand
it”.
Student 5: Yes, there is. It is Country Music. (слайд 9) It is a genre of American popular music that
originated in the rural regions of the in the 1920s. It takes its roots from southeastern American folk music,
Western cowboy. Blues mode has been used extensively throughout its recorded history. Country music
often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly
string instruments such as banjoes, electric and acoustic guitars, and harmonicas.
The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly
music. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and substyles. In 2009 country music
was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the
morning commute in the .
Student 6: In the 1940s and 1950s new styles of music emerged. Swing, rock-n-roll (слайд 10) and singers
like Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry destroyed the laws of morality that were imposed on the people by
the Church for centuries. In the 1950s Elvis Presley (слайд 11) became the King of rock-n-roll in the . The
music travelled to soon. It was especially popular among the teenagers. The parents were really shocked by
the music their children adored. The young people disagreed with their parents, wore jeans and danced to
their rock-n-roll records.
Elvis Presley was known as “The King of rock-n-roll”. He was born in in 1935. At the age of 13,
Elvis and his family moved to . There Elvis recorded his first song in 1954. He sold millions of records, served
in the army, moved to and appeared in 33 films. Elvis brought together the musical sounds of the blacks in
and of country people. Elvis’ songs are still popular today. People love to imitate him. We can hear one of his
best songs “Love me tender” in a very nice Russian film “An American Daughter”.
Student 7: The Beatles were (слайд 12), and their birthplace was in . As the music of that time was too soft
and tidy, the new generation of the 60s wanted something more energetic and powerful. In the 1960s in a
new band was created “The Beatles”. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were writing simple songs and
performing them so brilliantly that they gave a new impulse for the development of the musical community.
Other members of the famous group were George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Such songs as “Yesterday”,
“Let it be”, “Love me do”, “Yellow Submarine” made them the most popular band not only in , but throughout
the world as well. From the British Isles their music quickly travelled to Europe, and other continents. Early
in 1964 was soon called “Beatlemania”. Their music inspired hundreds to create new music
Student 8: Yes. The music became aggressive. It was a protest against the order. New styles appeared:
Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Trash Metal. The main groups were: “Pink Floyd”, “Deep Purple”, “Led
Zeppelin”, “Iron Maiden”, “Guns’ an roses”, “Metallica”, “the Rolling Stones” and “the Eagles”. They used
electronic equipment for light and sounds, special effects, intensely vivid sounds. Rock was represented by
such individual superstars, such as Stevie Wonder and Elton John.
Hard Rock later turned into Techno Rock with its machine-made sounds, showing civilization of
machines doing everything better, faster than humans. The groups are “The Kraftwerk” (Germany),
Depeche Mode, Prodigy (Great Britain), Scooter (Germany).
In the 21st century Technometal and Electronic Rock appeared with groups: “Linken Park” (the USA),
“Rammstein” (Germany).
Extremely popular was and still is the German rock group “The Scorpions” (слайд 13). They sing
in English. When they visited Moscow for the 1st time they wrote their famous “Wind Of Change”
Student 9: It’s interesting that no single style was set. We can see a lot of new branches: “disco”, “new
wave”, “punk”, “rap”, “hip-hop”. Let’s take ABBA (слайд 14) (presents “disco”), a Swedish music group,
internationally famous and popular with people of all ages. All know their famous hits “Thank you for the
Music”, “Dancing Queen”, “The Winner takes it all”, “Happy New Year” and others.
Student 10: I would say that pop music has always been very popular among people. Pop music is a branch
of contemporary music, a kind of contemporary mass culture. Pop songs are often devoted to personal
feelings, emotions, love & hate, passion etc.
Of great importance is visual performance: concert shows and imposing or even extraordinary
costumes. Pop singers usually employ a lot of dancers, actors and other people to perform on stage. Among
world-known pop-stars there are such names as (слайд 15) Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Whitney
Houston, Stevie Wonder, “ABBA”, “Modern Talking” and others.
Student 9: Today there is a great diversity of music stiles. Among the popular ones I can point out rap & hip-
hop styles. Rapping refers to “spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics” but is distinct from spoken word
poetry. it is performed in time to a beat. Stylistically, rap occupies a gray area among speech, prose, poetry,
and song. Rapping can be traced back to its African roots where slaves were delivering stories rhythmically,
over drums. This style in music began developing in the US, in Bronx, New York City. The founding father of
rap is considered Сool Herk (слайд 16).
hip-hop is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music with rhyming speech that is
chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: rapping,
scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing.
The term “hip hop music” is sometimes used synonymously with the term “rap music”, though
rapping is not a required component of hip hop music.
Creation of the term “hip hop” is often credited to Keith Cowboy, a rapper with Grandmaster Flash
and the Furious Five. It is believed that Cowboy created the term while teasing his friend who had just joined
the U.S. Army, by scat singing the words “hip/hop/hip/hop” in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of
soldiers marching.
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