初中二年级英语上册Module
Tony: I like this music! Who’s it b ?
Lingling: Well, I ’m not s , but Sally ’s school orchestra is playing it.
Betty: It’s by Strauss. You’ve h of him, h you? Lingling: Yes, I have. He was G , he?
Betty: No, he wasn ’t. He was Austrian. He was b in Vienna, the of Austria.
Daming: What’s it c ?
Betty: The Blue Danube. The Danube is the river in Vienna. Lingling: You like w c music, don’t you?
Betty: Yes, I do.
Lingling: Who’s your favourite classical c ? Betty: Beethoven. But I also like p music. You listen to pop music, you?
Lingling: Yes, I love it. Betty: But Sally is a classical m , so she doesn’t like pop music, does she?
Lingling: No, she doesn ’t. I think she ’ll like t Beijing Opera. Tony: Hmm, it’s certainly very…traditional, isn’t it?
Daming: I’m a f of rap. Tony: Hey! Give us a b !
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Lingling: What o e is that?
Daming: Rap music.
Tony: I don’t b it!
Unit 2 Vienna is a b o city on the river Danube. It’s the c city of Austria and the c of European classical music. From 1750 a lot of c and musicians came to s and work in Vienna. The most f family of musicians was the Strauss family. There were two composers called Johann Strauss: a father and a son. The father, Johann Strauss the elder, wrote and played music for a classical dance —a waltz. His waltzes m him famous all over Europe.
The son, Johann Strauss the younger, was even more successful and popular than his father. He wrote more than 400 waltzes and his most famous one was The Blue Danube. He wrote it in 1867. Strauss and Mozart were two of the most important composers.
Mozat was born in Austria in 1756. Before he was six he played not only the piano, but also the violin and the organ. His family took him around Europe and he gave concerts in many cities. He wrote his first opera at the age of 12 and hundreds of beautiful pieces of music for the classical orchestra. But he died in 1791 when he was only 35. Some people say he was the greatest European composer. 2