Spot dictation

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The music called Jazz was born sometimes around _________________ (1) in New Orleans. It combined_____________ (2) of Ragtime, marching band music and Blues. What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the _________________ (3) of improvisation, often by more than one player at a time.

  Jazz represented _______________ (4) western musical traditions, where the composer wrote a piece of music on paper and the musicians then tried their best to ________________ (5) what was in the score. In a Jazz piece, the song is often just ____________ (6)  or frame of reference for the musicians to improvise around. The song might have been a _____________ (7) ditty or blues that they didn’t compose, but by the time they were finished with it they had composed a new piece that often bore little resemblance to the _____________ (8) song. Many of these virtuoso musicians were not _______________ (9) readers and some could not read music at all, nevertheless their playing thrilled audiences and the spontaneous music they created captured a joy and _______________ (10) that was an exciting and radical departure from the music of that time.

  The first Jazz was played by African-American and Creole musicians in New Orleans. The cornet player, Buddy Bolden is _____________ (11) considered to be the first real Jazz musician. Other early players ___________ （12） Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson and Clarence Williams. Although these musicians’ names are ______________ (13) most people, then and now, their ideas are still being elaborated on _____________(14). Most of these men could not make a living with their music and were forced to work menial jobs to _________________ (15). The second wave of New Orleans Jazz musicians like Joe “King Oliver”, Kid Ory and Jelly Roll Morton formed small bands that took the music of these older men and increased the complexity and dynamic of their music, as well as gaining greater __________________ (16).

  This music became known as “Hot Jazz,” because of the often breakneck speeds and _______________ (17) improvised polyphony that these bands produced. A young virtuoso cornet player named Louis Armstrong was discovered in New Orleans by King Oliver. Armstrong soon _______________（18） become the greatest Jazz musician of his era and eventually one of the biggest stars in the world. The impact of Armstrong and other Jazz musicians altered the _________________ (19) both popular and classical music. African-American musical styles became the dominant force in _______________ (20) music.

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答 案

Spot dictation:

1. 1895

2. elements

3. widespread use

4. a break from

5. play exactly

6. a starting point

7. popular

8. original

9. good sight

10. sense of adventure

11. generally

12. included

13. unknown to

14. to this day

15. get by

16. commercial success

17. amazing

18. grew to

19. course of

20. 20th century