托福听力tpo16原文lecture2.pdf

托福听力 TPO16 原文 Lecture2
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TPO 16 Script Lecture 2
Professor:Up until now in our discussions and readings about the broken early
classical periods,we’ve been talking about the development of musical styles and genres
within the relatively narrow social context of its patronage by the upper classes. Composers,
after all,had to earn a living and those who were employed in the services of a specific
patron, well, I don’t have to spell it out for you, the likes and dislikes of that patron, this
would’ve had an effect on what was posed and performed. Now, of course,
there were many other influences posers, um, such as the technical advances we’
ve seen in the development of some of the instruments, uh, you remember the transverse
flute, the and so on. But I think if I were asked to identify a single crucial
development in European music of this time, it would be the invention of the piano, which,
interestingly enough also had a significant effect on European society of that time. And I’
ll get to that in a minute. Now, as we know, keyboard instruments existed long before the
piano - an, which dates back to the Middle Ages, as do other keyboard instruments,
such as the harpsichord which is still popular today with some musicians. But none of these
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