2014九年级英语 Unit 9 Like music that I can dance to Secti

Section B Period 2 (2a — 3b)

Do you like music? How does music make you feel?Listen to a piece of music and write down your feeling.

Music means a lot to human beings.

Music is fun and for your spirit. Without music, life is a journey through

a desert.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

A: I like music that …B: Oh, I …

slow loud classical popular traditional

Do you like Chinese folk music? Do you know any Chinese musical instruments?

dizi xiao cucurbit flute

suona Brass & woodwind (吹奏乐器)

guzheng pipa

dongbulayangqin Stings (弹拨乐器)

luo yunluo gu Percussion (打击乐器)

erhuStrings (拉弦乐器)

horse head string instrument

Do you know the name of the music? What is the name of the musical instrument?Bamboo in the Moonlight

Do you know the name of the music?What is the name of the musical instrument?A Moonlit Night on the Spring River

Do you know the name of the music?What is the name of the musical instrument?Moon Reflected on Second Spring

Moon Reflected on Second Spring is one of the best known Chinese music inside and outside China. Unlike its romantic name, this piece of music is full of heart-breaking sorrowness. The musician, Hua Yanjun (or Blind AhBing), like all the other great artists along human history, had a very complicated life.

He suffered from WWII, poverty, disease and repression from corrupted authorities in the old China (before 1949). As an itinerant (流动的) street performer, he was known to be able to play more than 600 erhu and pipa pieces, among which some were his compositions.

When the New China established in 1949, academic visitors from Shanghai found him in order to preserve Chinese folk music, and successfully recorded 6 pieces performed by him. Although he happily agreed to record more later, he died a few month after the first record, taking along his talented music (only 6 out of 600+ were recorded.) It’s a great loss of Chinese music treasure.

When people finished recording this music, they asked Ah-Bing for a name. Ah-Bing said he did not have one. Then, people asked him where he used to play it; he said that sometimes at getto, sometimes by the Hui Spring. One proposed to name it “second spring”, another thought “second spring” was too simple to name a music. Since there is a famous scenic place in the West Lake of Hangzhou called “Three pools reflecting the moon”, similarly, people decided to name this music as “Moon Reflected on Second Spring”. And Ah-Bing liked this name.