【正文】 r truelove. But for most of her career,she performed originally studied to be a classical pianist. But jazz was in its heyday3 backthen, and when she got out ofthe conservatory4, she was invited to join a jazz theopportunity was just too good to turn down. Professor , that’s fascinating. Because she probably had to reinventher whole musical style. Someone39。 Film Industry) Narrator Listen to part ofa lecturein a music history class. Professor So, uh, if you are a musician in theUnited Statesin the earlytwentieth century,where could you work? Student Same as now,I suppose. In an orchestra,mainly. Professor OK. And wherewould the orchestra be playing? Student Uh, in a concerthall or a dance hall? Professor That’s smaller groups of musicians wereneeded in theaters as acpanime nt to visual entertainment, like cabarets9 and varietyshows10. But thelargest employer for musicians back then wasthe film industry,especially during the silentfilm era. Student Really? You mean being a piano player or something? Ithought movie theaters would have used recordedmusic. 全國免費咨詢電話： 4000123267 Professor Well, no. Not during thesilentfilm are talking a period ofmaybe thirtyyears where working in movie theaters wasthe best job for musicians. Itwas verywellpaid. The rapid growth of thefilm industrymeant movie theaterswerepopping up suddenly there was this huge demand for musicians. Infact, over 20,000 jobs for musicians weregone, disappeared at the end of thesilentfilm era,20,000. OK. So from the beginning, music was a big part of film, even at the first... Student Excuse me,professor. Ithink I read somewhere that theyused music to drown out the sound of the film projectors? Professor Yeah. That’s a good story, isn’t it?Too bad it keepsgetting printed as if it wer ethe only reason music was used. Well, thinkabout it. Evenif that werethe case, noisy projectorswere separated from the main house prettyquickly,yet music continued to acpany film. So, as I was saying, even the veryfirst public projection ofa film had piano music was pretty much always there. What’s strange tome though, is that at first film music didn’t necessarily correspond towhat was on thescreen. You know, eh,a fast number11 for a chase, deep bass notes for danger,something light and humorous for that’s instantly recognizable now,even in the 全國免費咨詢電話： 4000123267 veryearly days offilm, anymusic was played. A theater owner would just buy a pile of sheet music12 and musicians will play it,no matter what it was. Pretty quickly though, thankfully, everybody realized the music should suit the film. So eventually,film makerstried to get more controlover the musical acpaniment of their films, and specify what type ofmusic to use and how fast or slow to play it. Student Are you saying therewas no music written specifically for a particular movie? Professor Yeah. Original scoresweren’t mon filmmaker might send along an original score posed especially for a film, but usually a pilation13 of music that already existed would be used. Yeah, that was a good time for a lot ofmusicians. Butthat all changed with the introduction ofsound on film technology. Actually,even before that,ans could mimic a number of instrumentsand also do some sound theywerestarting to replace live orchestrasin some movie theaters, and it only takes one person to play an an. Student OK. But even afterthat someone still had to play the music for the sound recordings, the soundtracks. Professor Yeah. Butthink of allthe movie theaterstherewere,most employing about six to eight musicians, 全國免費咨詢電話： 4000123267 some evenhad full orchestras. But in the early1930s, most theater owners installed newsound systems. So suddenlya lot of musicians werelooking for work. Once recording technology took off, studio jobs working exclusively for one film pany, eh,studio jobs did bee available. But thething is, each major movie panypretty much had only one orchestra for all their productions, a set number of regular musicians. So if you could getit, studio musician was a good job. Ifyou were cutout for14 it, musicians had to be able to read music verywell, since the producerswere veryconscious ofhow much money theywere spending. Theydidn’t want to waste anytime. So a musician was expected to play plicated piecesof music prettymuch without any preparation. Ifone couldn’t do it,there wereplentyof otherswaiting to try. So there was a lot of pressure to do well. 源于： 小馬過河 相關(guān)推薦： 2020 年 11 月 18 日托福寫作真題解析 2020 年 11 月 18 日托?？谡Z真題解析 2020 年 11 月 18 日托福閱讀真題解析 2020 年 11 月 18 日托福聽力真題解析