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Listening Unit one passage 15
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★Listen to part of conversation between two students
W: One of the things that I really have in trouble understanding is how jazz music develop to be so different from many other kinds of music. My class notes are terrible.
M: Well what can't you understand on your notes?
W: Uh... One thing is I copy down the musical training from blackboard. What did it mean by that?
M: Well most people who become professional musician to have some kind of formal training in music but the first people who play jazz music had almost not.
W: Ok, but so what? Doesn't it just mean that they weren't very good musicians.
M: Well, that' not the early jazz musicians weren't good, it' they play their instrument differently. Let' you are receiving formal instruction in the trumpet. First you will right way to play it your own. And the right way to use your fingers and right way to blow air and then you will practice single notes and different combination of notes until you could do those correctly and only after that your teacher give you a piece of music to play.
W: And the early jazz musician didn't learn to play this way?
M: No, the first people who play jazz music learn to play their instrument by actually trying to play a song they like! They were humanity and try to play themselves on their instruments. Because they were mostly teaching themselves, they began to express themselves in ways that formally traditionally trained musician didn't. In traditional instruction there are one correct way to play something and everyone who plays try to make the correct song. But in jazz...
W: In jazz music, there isn't one right way to play. In fact, individual musician just suppose to interpret the music in their own style. So you say this aspect of jazz developed because the first people who play jazz didn't have any formal music training.
M: Well that' part of it but there is more. What you still have on your notes.
Correct answers :BABC
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