2017年6月英语四级作文练习：音乐语言

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　　范文：
        The Language of Music
        　　A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall,and everyone can see
it. A composer writes a work, ut no one can hear it until it is performed.
Professional singers and players have greatresponsibilities, for the composer is
utterlydependent on them. A student of music needs aslong and as arduous a
training to become aperformer as a medical student needs to become adoctor. Most
training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the
muscularproficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing
every day, as theirvocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular
support. String playerspractice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down,
while drawing the bow to and frowith the right arm—two entirely different
movements.
        　　Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in
tune. Pianists arespared this particular anxiety, for the notes are already
there, waiting for them, and it is thepiano tuner’s responsibility to tune the
instrument for them. But they have their owndifficulties; the hammers that hit
the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion,and each overlapping
tone has to sound clear.
        　　This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student
conductors: they haveto learn to know every note of the music and how it should
sound, and they have to aim atcontrolling these sound with fanatical but
selfless authority.
        　　Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and
understanding.Great artists are those who are so thoroughly at home in the
language of music that they canenjoy performing works written in any
century.