我最喜歡的音樂 My Favorite Music

What is your favorite kind of music? Do you like jazz, popular music, classical music, folk songs, blues, and so on? In high school I took one course called music appreciation which I greatly enjoyed. This was not to learn how to play a specific instrument but to learn how to read and listen to music as an art form. We read the stories about the lives of many composers and the history of the musical instruments themselves. Sometimes we listened to tapes at the language laboratory, or concerts. Music is sometimes called a universal language. A composer who cannot speak a single word of our language can make us feel joy and pride, exaltation and despair, peace and mystery through his music.

你最喜歡什麼樣的音樂呢？你喜歡爵士，流行音樂，古典音樂，民歌，布魯斯藍調？高中時，我參加了一個叫音樂賞析的課程，我很喜歡它。那並不是學習如何去玩一種特殊的樂器，而是以藝術的形式來學習閱讀和聆聽音樂。我們閱讀許多作曲家的生活故事以及樂器本身的歷史。有時我們在語言實驗室聽磁帶，或去聽音樂會。有時候音樂被稱爲是通俗的語言。一個作曲家可以通過音樂用我們的語言說一個字就能讓我們感到開心、自豪、欣喜、絕望、平靜和迷惑。