L3
讲座
1. What is the lecture mainly about?
The link between biological rhythms and musical rhythm
The role of melody throughout the history of Western music
Evidence that contradicts a long-standing belief about the origins of music
Similarities between contemporary and early musical styles
2. What point does the professor make when he mentions an orchestra?
Music groups must practice together to improve their sound.
Rhythm in music is more consistent than biological rhythms.
Musicians often find melodies easier to learn than rhythms.
Orchestra members need to be aware of their own breathing patterns.
3. Why does the professor mention his daughter?
To give evidence that melody appears before rhythm in children’s development
To suggest that children’s melodies are more complex than previously thought
To indicate when he first heard a tumbling strain sung by a group of children
To explain why children are unable to recognize melodies until a certain age
4. Based on the discussion, what is the significance of tumbling strains?
They are closely related to the chants in early Western music.
They provide the earliest-known evidence of organized rhythm in music.
They may be the source of many melodies that are well known today.
They share a common feature with children’s singing
5. What was the subject of Curt Sachs’s research?
Western chants
The music of traditional cultures
Children’s spontaneous songs
Famous melodies
6. Why does the student say this:
To offer to demonstrate the professor’s point about heart rates
To suggest that most heart rates are faster than 76 to 80 beats per minute
To question the logic of using heart rate as a basis for measuring time in music
To find out if the definition of normal time in music has changed since the Baroque period
