2017年6月四级作文范文：音乐的语言

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2017年6月四级作文范文：音乐的语言
        　　A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall,and everyone can see
it. A composer writes a work,but 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.