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The Concept of Style
Style may be defined as the characteristic manner of presentation of any art form. We distinguish between the style of a novel and that of an essay, between the style of a cathedral and that of a palace. The word may also indicate the creator’s personal manner of expression—the distinctive flavor that sets one artist apart from all others. Thus we speak of the literary style of Dickens or Shakespeare, the painting style of Picasso or Michelangelo, the musical style of Bach or Mozart. We often identify style with nationality, as when we refer to French, Italian, or German style; or with an entire culture, as when we contrast a Western musical style with one of China, India, or some other region. It is the difference in the treatment of the elements of music that makes one musical work sound similar to or different from another. We have seen that western music is largely a melody-oriented art based on a particular musical system from
which
the underlying harmonies are also built. Relatively speaking, rhythm and meter in western music are based on simpler principles than are melody and harmony. Music of other cultures may sound foreign to our ears and sometimes out of tune because they are based on entirely different musical systems from which they derive their melodic material and many do not involve harmony to any great extent. One important factor in these differing languages of music is the way in which the octave is divided and scales are produced. Complex rhythmic procedures and textures set some world music apart from western styles, while basic formal considerations—such as repetition, contrast, and variation—bring music of
disparate
cultures closer. In short, a style is made up of all the factors relating to pitch, time, timbre, and expression, creating a sound that each culture recognizes as its own.
Since all art changes from one age to the next, one very important use of the word "style" is in connecting the various historical periods. The music of each world culture has its own style periods. Focusing on the development of western music we will find that the concept of style enables us to draw connections between musicians and their time, so that the musical work is placed in its socio-historical frame. No matter how greatly the artists, writers, and composers of a particular era may vary in personality and outlook, when seen in the perspective of time, they turn out to have certain qualities in common. Because of this, we can tell at once that a work of art—whether music, poetry, painting, sculpture, or architecture—dates from the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, from the eighteenth century or the nineteenth.
The style of a period, then, is the total art language of all its artists as they react to the artistic, political, economic, religious, and philosophical forces that shape their environment.
(A)[■] Scholars will always disagree as to precisely when one style period ends and the next begins.
(B)[■] Each period leads by
imperceptible
degrees into the following one, dates and labels being merely convenient signposts.
(C)[■] The following outline shows the generally accepted style periods in the history of western music.
(D)[■] Each represents a concept of form and technique, an ideal of beauty, a manner of expression and performance attuned to the cultural climate of the period—in a word, a style! 350~600: Period of the Church Fathers 600~850: Early Middle Ages—Gregorian chant 850~1150: Romanesque period—development of the staff in musical notation, about 1000 1150~1450: Late Middle Ages (Gothic period) 1450~1600: Renaissance period 1600~1750: Baroque period 1725~1775: Rococo period 1750~1825: Classical period 1820~1900: Romantic period 1890~1915: Post-Romantic and Impressionist period 1910~20th century [br] According to Paragraph 2, what makes music of different cultures bear similarities to one another?
选项
A、How the octave is divided and scales are produced.
B、The way in which the harmonies of certain music are achieved.
C、Whether there is the trend of being melody- oriented or not.
D、The formal qualities of music instead of rhythmic procedures and textures.
答案
D
解析
本题仍为事实信息题。题目问:根据第二段,什么使得不同文化的音乐具有共同点?根据此段的倒数第二句“Complex rhythmic procedures and textures set some world music apart from western styles,while basic formal considerations—such as repetition, contrast, and variation—bring music of disparate cultures closer(复杂的节奏和结构使得世界音乐和西方音乐有所不同,而基本的规范需要考虑的因素,如重复、对比和变调等,使得不同文化的音乐更加贴近)”,所以选D项。
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