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Objective Proficiency Unit 06 Learning English - 6 Minute English - How musical are you?

Learning English - 6 Minute English - How musical are you?:


Can anyone become musical?

He who pays the piper calls the tune

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Meaning: The person who pays a musician can decide what music he wants to hear. And the person who pays for any service has the right to say exactly what he wants.

Note: piper (noun) = a person who plays the pipe (a musical instrument) | tune (noun) = a melody; a piece of music

Quick Quiz:

Mark tapped his wallet and said to his friends, "He who pays the piper calls the tune", meaning that

he wondered if they'd like to go to a concert he would decide where they would eat he'd spent all his money Source: englishclub.com

he who pays the piper calls the tune - Spanish translation – Linguee

he who pays the piper calls the tune - Spanish translation – Linguee:

Listen by numbers: music and maths | Music | The Guardian

Listen by numbers: music and maths | Music | The Guardian: "Listen by numbers: music and maths Who says maths is all cold logic and music all emotion? That's nonsense, writes Marcus du Sautoy – the two are intimately connected Share Tweet this inShare 17 Email Marcus du Sautoy The Guardian, Monday 27 June 2011 22.00 BST Jump to comments (…) Sound thinking . . . composer Karlheinz Stockhausen lecturing. Photograph: Garp/Redferns I used to do a lot of counting as a trumpeter in my local youth orchestra. Sitting in the brass section, counting out rests so I didn't crash in early with a fanfare, I began to realise that mathematics and music had even deeper links. It is certainly a connection people have commented on throughout the ages. "Music," wrote the great 17th-century German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, "is the sensation of counting without being aware you were counting." But there is more to this connection than counting. As the French baroque composer Rameau declared in 1722: "I must confess that only with the aid of mathematics did my ideas become clear.""

Sound thinking . . . composer Karlheinz Stockhausen lecturing. Photograph: Garp/Redferns

Weekly topic: The sound of music 01 Objective Proficiency, Unit 6 plectrum

Plectrum cartoon source: switchgaming.blogspot.com

plec‧trum [countable] especially British English

a small thin piece of plastic, metal, or wood that you use for playing some musical instruments with strings, such as a guitar [= pick]

Pictures sources: www.ioffer.com.hk and www.stylemetv.com

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

01 Weekly topic The sound of music: music vocabulary

• mu‧sic [uncountable]
• 1 a series of sounds made by instruments or voices in a way that is pleasant or exciting
• I often listen to music when I'm in the car.
• What's your favourite kind of music?
• a record featuring the music of George Harrison
• The band was playing music from the show 'South Pacific'.
• Nyman writes the music for most of Peter Greenaway's films.
• a country music radio station
• A lot of the bars round here have live music at weekends.
• A new piece of music was specially written for the occasion.
• He was a keen music lover.
• 2 the art of writing or playing music:
• Peter's studying music at college.
• music lessons
• music business/industry etc
• a career in the music business
• 3 a set of written marks representing music, or paper with the written marks on it:
• I left my music at home.
• McCartney never learned to read music.
• ➔ sheet music
• 4

  be music to your ears

   if someone's words are music to your ears, they make you very happy or pleased
• 5

  set/put something to music

   to write music so that the words of a poem, play etc can be sung

• ➔ face the music

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01 Weekly topic The sound of music: music collocations

COLLOCATIONS 
listen to musicplay musicwrite/compose musicpop/rock/jazz/classical/country musiclive music (=music that is played by musicians on stage)recorded musicbackground musicpiece of musicmusic loverLongman dictionary of contemporary English

01 weekly topic. The sound of music.Grammar about music

!! Do not say 'musics' or 'a music'. Music is an uncountable noun• I love listening to music.!! Do not say 'music band' or 'music group'. Say band or group• Why don't we form a band?• My favourite group is S Club 7.You can also use a word that describes a type of music before band orgroup• a jazz band• a rock group!! Do not say 'music concert'. Say concert• It was the first time I'd been to a concert.You can also use a word that describes a type of music before concert• pop concerts• a classical music concertLongman dictionary for contemporary English

01 weekly topic. The sound of music. Vocabulary about traditional musical instruments

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http://visual.merriam-webster.com/arts-architecture/music/traditional-musical-instruments_1.php

01 weekly topic. The sound of music. Questions about the sound of music

Relevant answers:

•  Who composed the music in the sound of music?
  RICHARD RODGERS - Born: June 28, 1902 
•  What is the sound of music?
  The Sound of music is a movie musical released in 1965 starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. It is based (though not historically accurate) on the life of Maria von Trapp. You can find a... 
•  Who makes the music in sound of music?
  Richard Rogers 
•  Who made all the music for The Sound of Music?
  Richard Rodgers. But I think Oscar Hammerstein wrote some music for the film version because Richard Rodgers was dead by then. 
•  What was the timbre of The Sound of Music music?
  There were many different timbres but they all were voices if I remember correctly.

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01 weekly topics: The sound of music.- Tunig peg: music vocabulary

15-04-2011. Tuning peg. TODAY'S VOCABULARY WITH IMAGES OR PICTURES. 05.

tuning peg [countable]

a screw used for making the strings on a guitar etc tighter or looser

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
learn more about guitars: 
http://www.electricguitarplanet.com/2008/04/06/guitar-parts-basic/

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Weekly topic: The Sound of Music - Trailer [1965] [38th Oscar Best Picture]

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01 Weekly topic The sound of music: Reading practice: The Exceptional World of Blind and Autistic Children

The Exceptional World of Blind and Autistic Children

Posted on January 12, 2012 

Gaining understanding through music.

Adam Ockelford PhD, Southlands College, University of Roehampton

24 November 2011

When watching the countless YouTube videos of the often extraordinary talents of blind and autistic children, many of us cannot imagine having these exceptional musical skills at such a young age. But why, with their social and perceptual impairments and difficulties communicating, would blind and autistic children develop such impressive musicianship?

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