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Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and...
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Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments. A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional persussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music – tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas – are widely used.

          In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non-Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters – closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

The word “it” in line 11 refers to ________.

A. piano      

B. string       

C. blade       

D. music

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31 tháng 7 2019

Đáp án B.

Key words: it, line 11, refers.

Clue: “A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it”: Một người chơi trống đồng hoặc một người thổi sáo có thể ngân nga trong lúc chơi, để tạo nên 2 âm cao cùng một lúc; một người chơi đàn piano có thể chạm vào bên trong cây đàn để kéo một sợi dây lên và chạy một chuỗi kim loại dọc theo dây đó. Từ “it” liên hệ với từ “a string” đứng trước đó, đáp án B. string  là phù hợp.

Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and...
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Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments. A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional persussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music – tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas – are widely used.

          In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non-Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters – closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

According to the passage, which of the following types of instruments has played a role in much of the innovation in Western music?

A. String     

B. Percussion         

C. Woodwind        

D. Brass

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21 tháng 9 2017

Đáp án B

Key words:  type, instruments, innovation, Western music.

Clue: “In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions”: Trong âm nhạc ở phương tây, sự mở rộng và thử nghiệm lớn nhất là ở nhạc cụ gõ, mà được sử dụng nhiều hơn cả nhạc cụ dây và gió trong các tác phẩm gần đây. Vậy nhạc cụ gõ thì đã đóng góp vai trò trong việc phát triển âm nhạc phương Tây, nhiều hơn cả nhạc cụ dây và gió. Đáp án B. Percussion là phù hợp.

Đề bài: Đọc và dịch đoạn văn sang tiếng việt :     Today, I will tell you about my dream home. I dream of having a beautiful pink house. It is two stories high. In my house, there will be 11 rooms: four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a dining room, a library and a music room. There will be many good and useful books in the library. In the music room, there are many instruments such as piano,violin...The equipment in my house is very modern. I will have a...
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Đề bài: Đọc và dịch đoạn văn sang tiếng việt :

     Today, I will tell you about my dream home. I dream of having a beautiful pink house. It is two stories high. In my house, there will be 11 rooms: four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a dining room, a library and a music room. There will be many good and useful books in the library. In the music room, there are many instruments such as piano,violin...The equipment in my house is very modern. I will have a smart TV in the house. I can surf the internet or watch my favorite shows. I will have a smart phone to make calls and exchange emails with my friends. I will have lots of robots in the house. Home robot will help me do all the chores quickly. I will have more teaching robots and they will be able to take care of the kids, help children do homework. I hope the house will be as beautiful as the dream.I love my dream house so much !

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18 tháng 4 2020

Hôm nay, tôi sẽ kể cho bạn về ngôi nhà mơ ước. Tôi mơ ước có một ngôi nhà màu hồng tuyệt đẹp. Nó cao hai tầng. Trong nhà tôi, sẽ có 11 phòng: bốn phòng ngủ, hai phòng tắm, một phòng khách, ở bếp,
  một phòng ăn, một thư viện và một phòng âm nhạc. Sẽ có nhiều sách hay và hữu ích trong thư viện. Trong phòng nhạc, có nhiều nhạc cụ như piano, violin, ... Thiết bị trong nhà tôi rất ôn hòa. Tôi sẽ có một TV thông minh trong nhà. Tôi có thể lướt internet hoặc xem các chương trình yêu thích của mình. Tôi sẽ gọi điện thoại thông minh để gọi điện và trao đổi email với bạn bè. Tôi sẽ có rất nhiều robot trong nhà. Robot sẽ giúp tôi làm mọi việc nhanh chóng. Tôi sẽ có nhiều hơn dạy robot và họ sẽ có thể chăm sóc bọn trẻ, giúp trẻ làm bài tập về nhà. Tôi hy vọng ngôi nhà sẽ đẹp như mơ. Tôi yêu ngôi nhà mơ ước thật nhiều!

18 tháng 4 2020

Hôm nay, tôi sẽ kể cho bạn về ngôi nhà ước mơ của tôi. Tôi mơ rằng mình có một căn nhà màu hồng xinh đẹp. Nó có(cao) 2 tầng. Trong nhà của tôi, nó sẽ có 11 phòng: 4 phòng ngủ, 2 phòng tắm, nhà khách, bếp, phòng ăn, thư viện và một phòng âm nhạc. Sẽ có nhiều cuốn sách hay và hữu ích ở thư viện. Ở phòng âm nhạc, có rất nhiều dụng cụ âm nhạc như đàn dương cầm, vĩ cầm,...Trang thiết bị trong nhà tôi rất hiện đại. Tôi sẽ có một chiếc TV thông minh ở nhà. Tôi có thể lướt internet hoặc xem chương trình yêu thích của mình. Tôi sẽ có một chiếc điện thoại thông minh để thực hiện cuộc gọi và trao đổi email với bạn của tôi. Tôi sẽ có rất nhiều robot ở trong nhà. Robot nhà sẽ giúp tôi làm tất cả các công việ nhanh chóng. Tôi sẽ có nhiều robot giảng dạy hơn nữa và chúng sẽ có thể giúp tôi chăm sóc những đứa trẻ, giúp chúng làm bài tập về nhà. Tôi mong rằng ngôi nhà đó sẽ đẹp như những gì tôi tưởng tượng. Tôi yêu căn nhà mơ ước của tôi rất nhiều!

Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and...
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Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments. A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional persussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music – tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas – are widely used.

          In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non-Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters – closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

According to the passage, which of the following would be considered traditional elements of Western music?

A. Microtones

B. Tom-toms and bongs

C. Pianos

D. Hisses

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28 tháng 2 2017

Đáp án C.

Key words: traditional, element, Western, music.

Clue: “Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition….Traditional percussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music – tom-toms, bongs, slapsticks, maracas – are widely used…”: Âm thanh của môi trường, như là sấm sét, và các tiếng rít, tiếng blip có thể được ghi lại, thao tác lại và sau đó kết hợp vào một tác phẩm âm nhạc…Nhạc cụ gõ truyền thống thì được dùng với loại nhạc cụ mới như beat, và những nhạc cụ từng được sử dụng độc đáo trong âm nhạc phương Tây: tom-toms, bống, slapsticks, maracas – được dùng rộng rãi….Vậy theo clue thì nhạc cụ hiện đại bao gồm microtones, tom-tom, bongos và hisses. Đáp án đúng là C. piano, nó không phải là nhạc cụ hiện đại, mà nó là nhạc cụ truyền thống.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.   Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the "liberation of sound...the right to make music with any and all sounds." Electronic music, for example - made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments -...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

  Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the "liberation of sound...the right to make music with any and all sounds." Electronic music, for example - made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments - may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

  Environmental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional percussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music - tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas - are widely used.

          In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non- Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters - closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

The passage suggests that Edgard Varese is an example of a composer who __________

A. criticized electronic music as too noise like

B. modified sonic of the electronic instruments he used in his music

C. believed that any sound could be used in music

D. wrote music with environmental themes

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28 tháng 5 2017

Đáp án C.

Key words: Edgard Varese, composer.

Clue: “Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the "liberation of sound...the right to make music with any and all sounds”: Nhà soạn nhạc Edgard Varese (1883-1965), vì vậy gọi là “sự giải phóng âm thanh... cái quyền để tạo nên âm nhạc với bất cứ loại ảm thanh nào ”.

  A. criticized electronic music as too noiselike: Chỉ trích nhạc điện tử là thứ ging như tiếng ồn. Sai vì không có thông tin trong bài nói về việc ông chỉ trích nhạc điện tử.

  B. modified sonic of the electronic instruments he used in his music: giảm nhẹ âm thanh của thiết bị điện tử ông dùng trong âm nhạc. Sai vì không có thông tin trong bài.

  C. believed that any sound could be used in music:

Tin rằng bất cứ âm thanh nào cũng có th được dùng trong âm nhạc. Đúng, tham khảo clue.

 D. wrote music with environmental themes: Viết nhạc dựa trên nền tự nhiên. Sai vì không có thông tin trong bài nói về nguồn gốc các bài nhạc của ông.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.   Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the "liberation of sound...the right to make music with any and all sounds." Electronic music, for example - made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments -...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

  Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the "liberation of sound...the right to make music with any and all sounds." Electronic music, for example - made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments - may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

  Environmental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional percussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music - tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas - are widely used.

          In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non- Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters - closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

In paragraph 3, the author mentions diagrams as an example of a new way to _________

A. chart the history of innovation in musical notation

B. explain the logic of standard musical notation

C. design and develop electronic instruments

D. indicate how particular sounds should be produced

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21 tháng 6 2017

Đáp án D.

Key words: paragraph 3, diagrams, example, new way.

Clue: “Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graphlike diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page”: Bởi vì kí hiệu âm nhạc tiêu chun không tạo nên nguồn cung cho sự tiến bộ, điểm số âm nhạc gần đây chưa đựng nhiều biếu đồ đồ họa, hình dạng và kí hiệu nốt mới, và nhiều cách hay đế sắp xếp các kí hiệu trên trang nhạc.

  A. chart the history of innovation in musical notation: đồ thị lịch sử phát triển của kí hiệu âm nhạc. Sai, vì không hp ý tác giả.

  B. explain the logic of Standard musical notation: giải thích sự hợp lí của kí hiệu âm nhạc tiêu chuẩn. Sai, tham khảo clue.

  C. design and develop electronic instruments: thiết kế và phát triển nhạc cụ điện tử. Sai, vì không có thông tin trong bài nói về việc thiêt kế âm thanh.

  D. indicate how particular sounds should be produced: chỉ ra cách mà các âm thanh được tạo nên. Đúng, tham khảo clue.

Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and...
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Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments. A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional persussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music – tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas – are widely used.

          In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non-Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters – closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

The passage suggests that Edgard Varese is an example of a composer who ________ .

A. criticized electronic music as too noise like

B. modified sonic of the electronic instrumets he used in his music

C. believed that any sound could be used in music

D. wrote music with enviromental themes

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27 tháng 3 2017

Đáp án C.

Key words: Edgard Varese, composer.

Clue: “Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the “liveration of sound….the right to make music with any and all sounds”:  Nhà soạn nhạc Edgard Varese (1883-1965), vì vậy gọi là “sự giải phóng âm thanh…cái quyền để tạo nên âm nhạc với bất cứ loại âm thanh nào”.

          A. criticized electronic music as too noiselike: Chỉ trích nhạc điện tử là thứ giống như tiếng ồn. Sai  vì không có thông tin trong bài nói về việc ông chỉ trích nhạc điện tử.

          B. modified sonic of the electronic instruments he used in his music: giảm nhẹ âm thanh của thiết bị điện tử ông dùng trong âm nhạc. Sai  vì không có thông tin trong bài.

          C. believed that any sound could be used in music: Tin rằng bất cứ âm thanh nào cũng có thể được dùng trong âm nhạc. Đúng, tham khảo clue.

          D. wrote music with enviromental themes: Viết nhạc dựa trên nền tự nhiên. Sai vì không có thông tin trong bài nói về nguồn gốc các bài nhạc của ông.

Mark the following passage and make the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questionComposers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments –...
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Mark the following passage and make the letter A,B,C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the question

Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965)  called thus the “liberation of sound…the right to make music with any and all sounds.” Electronic music, for example – made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments – may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

          Enviromental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments. A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional persussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music – tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas – are widely used.

          In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non-Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters – closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

The word “wider” in line 1 is closet in meaning to ________.

A. more impressive         

B. more distinctive 

C. more controversial          

D. more extensive

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3 tháng 1 2017

Đáp án D

Key words: wider, line 1, closet in meaning.

Clue: “Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises”: Các nhà soạn nhạc ngày nay sử dụng một sự đa dạng lớn các âm thanh hơn bao giờ hết, bao gồm cả nhiều âm thanh mà trước đây từng bị cho là tiếng ồn không mong muốn. Từ “wider” có nghĩa là rộng hơn, bao la hơn, đa dạng hơn, vậy đáp án D. more extensive là phù hợp.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.   Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the "liberation of sound...the right to make music with any and all sounds." Electronic music, for example - made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments -...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

  Composers today use a wider variety of sounds than ever before, including many that were once considered undesirable noises. Composer Edgard Varese (1883-1965) called thus the "liberation of sound...the right to make music with any and all sounds." Electronic music, for example - made with the aid of computers, synthesizers, and electronic instruments - may include sounds that in the past would not have been considered musical.

  Environmental sounds, such as thunder, and electronically generated hisses and blips can be recorded, manipulated, and then incorporated into a musical composition. But composers also draw novel sounds from voices and non-electronic instruments. Singers may be asked to scream, laugh, groan, sneeze, or to sing phonetic sounds rather than words. Wind and string players may lap or scrape their instruments A brass or woodwind player may hum while playing, to produce two pitches at once; a pianist may reach inside the piano to pluck a string and then run a metal blade along it. In the music of the Western world, the greatest expansion and experimentation have involved percussion instruments, which outnumber strings and winds in many recent compositions. Traditional percussion instruments are struck with new types of beaters; and instruments that used to be couriered unconventional in Western music - tom-toms, bongos, slapsticks, maracas - are widely used.

          In the search for novel sounds, increased use has been made in Western music of Microtones. Non- Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones or micro tones, within the same interval. Composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki create sound that borders on electronic noise through tone clusters - closely spaced tones played together and heard as a mass, block, or band of sound. The directional aspect of sound has taken on new importance as well Loudspeakers or groups of instruments may be placed at opposite ends of the stage, in the balcony, or at the back and sides of the auditorium. Because standard music notation makes no provision for many of these innovations, recent music scores may contain graph like diagrams, new note shapes and symbols, and novel ways of arranging notation on the page.

The word “thereby” in line 18 is closest in meaning to    .

A. in return for

B. in spite of

C. by the way

D. by this means

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16 tháng 5 2017

Đáp án D.

Key words: thereby, line 18, closest in meaning.

Clue: “Non-Western music typically divides and intervals between two pitches more finely than Western music does, thereby producing a greater number of distinct tones, or micro tones, within the same interval”: Âm nhạc không phải phương Tây thưng chia ra và có khoảng cách giữa 2 nốt nhạc tinh tế hơn so với âm nhạc phương Tây, do đó tạo ra một lượng lớn các tông khác biệt, tông nhỏ, trong khoảng tương tự. Từ “Thereby” có nghĩa là vì vây, nên đáp án D. by this means là phù hp.

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thereby = so = thus = in that way = by this means: vì vậy, do đó