2024年4月16日发(作者：)

经典英文课文背诵５０篇（带翻译）

>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 artists are those who are so thoroughly at home

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