jazz的英文介绍（★）

第一篇：jazz的英文介绍

jazz

I Introduction

Jazz, type of music first developed by African Americans around the first decade of the 20th century that has an identifiable history and distinct stylistic evolution.Jazz grew up alongside the blues and popular music, and all these genres overlap in many ways.However, critics generally agree about whether artists fall squarely in one camp or another.II Characteristics

Since its beginnings jazz has branched out into so many styles that no single description fits all of them accurately.A few generalizations can be made, however, bearing in mind that for all of them, exceptions can be cited.Performers of jazz improvise within the conventions of their chosen style.Typically, the improvisation is accompanied by the repeated chord progression of a popular song or an original composition.Instrumentalists emulate black vocal styles, including the use of glissandi(sliding movements that smoothly change the pitch), nuances of pitch(including blue notes, the “bent” notes that are played or sung slightly lower than the major scale), and tonal effects such as growls and wails.In striving to develop a personal sound, or tone color(an idiosyncratic sense of rhythm and form and an individual style of execution), performers create rhythms characterized by constant syncopation(the placing of accents in

unexpected places, usually on the weaker beat)and by swing.Swing can be defined as a sensation of momentum in which a melody is alternately heard together with, then slightly at variance with, the regular beat.Written scores, if present, are often used merely as guides, providing structure within which

improvisation occurs.The typical instrumentation begins with a rhythm section consisting of piano, string bass, drums, and optional guitar, to which may be added any number of wind instruments.In big bands the wind instruments are grouped into three sections: saxophones, trombones, and trumpets.Although exceptions occur in some styles, most jazz is based on the

principle that an infinite number of melodies can fit the chord progressions of any song.The musician improvises new melodies that fit the chord

progression, which is repeated again and again as each soloist is featured, for as many choruses as desired.Although pieces with many different formal patterns are used for jazz

improvisation, two formal patterns in particular are frequently found in songs used for jazz.One is the AABA form of popular-song choruses, which typically consists of 32 measures in ¹ meter, divided into four 8-measure sections: section A, a repetition of section A, section B(the “bridge” or “release,” often beginning in a new key), and a repetition of section A.The second form, with roots deep in African American folk music, is the 12-bar blues form.Unlike the 32-bar AABA form, blues songs have a fairly standardized chord progression.III Origins

Jazz is rooted in the mingled musical traditions of African Americans.These include traits surviving from West African music;black folk music forms

developed in the Americas;European popular and light classical music of the 18th and 19th centuries;and later popular music forms influenced by black

music or produced by black composers.Among the surviving African traits are vocal styles that include great freedom of vocal color;a tradition of

improvisation;call-and-response patterns;and rhythmic complexity, both in the syncopation of individual melodic lines and in the conflicting rhythms played by different members of an ensemble.Black folk music forms include field hollers, rowing chants, lullabies, and later, spirituals and blues(see African American Music).European music contributed specific styles and forms: hymns, marches, waltzes, quadrilles, and other dance music, as well as light theatrical music and Italian operatic music.European music also introduced theoretical elements, in particular, harmony, both as a vocabulary of chords and as a concept related to musical form.(Much of the European influence was

absorbed through private lessons in European music, even when the black musicians so trained could only find work in seedy entertainment districts and on Mississippi riverboats.)

Black-influenced elements of popular music that contributed to jazz include the banjo music of the minstrel shows(derived from the banjo music of slaves), the syncopated rhythmic patterns of African-influenced Latin American music(heard in southern U.S.cities), the barrelhouse piano styles of tavern

musicians in the Midwest, and the marches played by black brass bands in the late 19th century.Near the end of the 19th century, another influential genre emerged.This was ragtime, a composed music that combined many elements, including syncopated rhythms(from banjo music and other black sources)and the harmonic contrasts and formal patterns of European marches.After 1910 bandleader W.C.Handy took another influential form, the blues, and broke its strict oral tradition by publishing his original blues songs.(Favored by jazz

musicians, Handy’s songs found one of their greatest interpreters in the 1920s in blues singer Bessie Smith, who recorded many of them.)

The merging of these multiple influences into jazz is difficult to reconstruct because it occurred before the existence of recording, which has provided valuable documentation.Of course, individual musicians had varying

backgrounds and few people were directly exposed to all of these influences.For example, most jazz artists were and are city dwellers and might have only known rural black forms indirectly.IV History

Most early jazz was played in small dance bands or by solo pianists.Besides ragtime and marches, the repertoire included all kinds of popular dance music and blues.The bands typically played at picnics, weddings,parades, and funerals.Characteristically, the bands played dirges on the way to funerals and lively marches on the way back.Blues and ragtime had arisen

independently just a few years before jazz and continued to exist alongside it, influencing the style and forms of jazz and providing important vehicles for jazz improvisation.RAP

The traditional entertainment involving talking and singing(Rap)is in black slang words and expressions, is equal in “the conversation”(talking), is from New York impoverished black community.It by under machinery's rhythm sound's background, related fast a succession of ryhme the verse is a characteristic.One of this form origins was the past broadcasting station

master of ceremonies in introduced when phonograph record used one kind fast, ryhme shoptalk language.Lapp's lyrics are humorous, are charming, often has sarcastic, in the 80s receives the black to welcome especially.The most representative orchestra is “the overt enemy”(Public Enemy).Sometimes Lapp also calls “the Shipphopp's meaning was wider, makes a general reference at that time New York street corner culture each ingredient, besides Lapp, but also had:(Lapp uses frequently)places with the hand on the record player turntable's phonograph record shuttle, sends out has the rhythm to blow the fricative;Phonograph record broadcast(DJ)when transformation phonograph record splicing canned music piece, cannot listen to the interrupt trace technique;Break dancing and so on.Reprimanding or traditional entertainment involving talking and singing music, rhythm and blue color music(R&B)style including the rhythmic vocals sophistry in music accompaniment.The accompaniment includes the

electronic drum to strike generally with the sample(digital sound bite which isolates)is unified from other music sound recording.in 1979 the first

reprimanding record has been created, and the style rose to has broken out in the US in

第二篇：家乡英文介绍

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第三篇：远大前程英文介绍

The story is divided into three phases of Pip's life expectations.The first

“expectation” is allotted 19 chapters, and the other two 20 chapters each in the 59-chapter work.In some editions, the chapter numbering reverts to Chapter One in each expectation, but the original publication and most modern editions number the chapters consecutively from one to 59.At the end of chapters 19 and 39, readers are formally notified that they have reached the conclusion of a phase of Pip's expectations.In the first expectation, Pip lives a humble existence with his ill-tempered older sister and her strong but gentle husband, Joe Gargery.Pip is satisfied with this life and his warm friends until he is hired by an embittered wealthy woman, Miss Havisham, as an occasional companion to her and her beautiful but haughty adopted daughter, Estella.From that time on, Pip aspires to leave behind his simple life and be a gentleman.After years as companion to Miss Havisham and Estella, he spends more years as an apprentice to Joe, so that he may grow up to have a livelihood working as a blacksmith.This life is suddenly turned upside down when he is visited by a London attorney, Mr.Jaggers, who informs Pip that he is to come into the “Great Expectation” of a handsome property and be trained to be a gentleman at the behest of an anonymous benefactor.The second stage of Pip's expectations has Pip in London, learning the details of being a gentlemen, having tutors, fine clothing, and joining cultured society.Whereas he always engaged in honest labour when he was younger, he now is supported by a generous allowance, which he frequently lives beyond.He learns to fit in this new milieu, and experiences not only friendship but rivalry as he finds himself in the same circles as Estella, who is also pursued by many other men, especially Bentley Drummle, whom she favours.As he adopts the physical and cultural norms of his new status, he also adopts the class attitudes that go with it, and when Joe comes to visit Pip and his friend and roommate Herbert to deliver an important message, Pip is embarrassed to the point of hostility by Joe's unlearned ways, despite his protestations of love and friendship for Joe.At the end of this stage, Pip is introduced to his benefactor, again changing his world.The third and last stage of Pip's expectations alters Pip's life from the artificially supported world of his upper class strivings and introduces him to realities that he realizes he must deal with, facing moral, physical and financial challenges.He learns startling truths that cast into doubt the values that he once embraced so eagerly, and finds that he cannot regain many of the important things that he had cast aside so carelessly.The current ending of the story is different from Dickens's original intent, in which the ending matched the gloomy reverses to Pip's fortunes that typify the last expectation.Dickens was

prevailed upon to change the ending to one more acceptable to his readers'

tastes in that era, and this “new” ending was the published one and currently accepted as definitive.Dickens has Pip as the writer and first person narrator of this account of his life's experiences, and the entire story is understood to have been written as a retrospective, rather than as a present tense narrative or a diary or journal.Still, though Pip “knows” how all the events in the story will turn out, he uses only very subtle foreshadowing so that we learn of events only when the Pip in the story does.Pip does, however, use the perspective of the bitter lessons he's learned to comment acidly on various actions and attitudes in his earlier life.

第四篇：李小龙英文介绍

Today I would like to talk about Bruce Lee , the person I admired most.Bruce Lee, generation of martial arts master, the founder of Jeet kune Do, which is a kind of martial art he combine the advantages of Chinese Kungfu , Boxing, Karate and kickboxing in practice.Jeet kune do are much more flexiable than any other martial arts.Bruce Lee encourage people learn martial art should attackhis opponent directly without traditional routine.He is also a philosopher , which is rarely seenamong other martial arts master.He is aman full of thoughts and creativity.,He is the first Chinese to break into Hollywood, he revolutionized the world to promote the development of martial arts and kung fu movies.It is he who spread Chinese kungfu to world.Ordinary people may think that if they can possess one of the honor above, they would be satisfied.But when it comes to Bruce Lee，well，,he would never stop.He change the attitude of people all over the world towards Chinese.His untimely death make the whole world sighed.He was rather confident.his wife Linda said his 32 year life was full of energy and creativity.He knew how great his ability and creativity was, so he work to prove it every day.Maybe it was why he could be so successful in both martial art and movie.He is a hardworking man.Although he was flatfoot and myopia, he practice much every day ,never blame ,never give up.As a result ,he got many unique skills which shocked everyone who witnessed this.He was also a frank man.When communicate with other martial masters ,no matter which country were they come from ,he always told them without reservation.Deeply moved ,other martial masters also taught him.That’s why Jeet kune do can combine so many kinds of martial art all over the world.There were many obstacle on the way ,from both Chinese traditional martial field and American racism.But Bruce Lee never mind how people view him.So he complete what no one had done before.His story taught me determination, taught me that if you dream about something , work for it.He let me know sometimes you needn’t care about how others oppose you.Once I feel tired ,I thought about what he did everyday.When I choose to be a doctor ,mother worried about my poor ability of practice.But I think what I should do is prove that I can overcome the shortcoming by hard work.I thought about Bruce Lee, I’d like to do what he had done.My admiration bring me courage and power, so I live to the fullest every day.Every July 8th is Bruce Lee’s Day.I always climb mountain on this day.Thinking about the whole life of this great master ,looking up to sky, I felt maybe Bruce Lee never left.His great spirit would be with our Chinese people forever.

第五篇：个人介绍(英文)

Aaron’s Story

My name is Aaron and my Chinese full name is Niu Yuezeng.I was born and grew up in a village in Henan province.I have a open-minded father, who used to teach me poems.I have been thinking that he is a really great father.Unfortunately, when I was a child, I was not intelligent at all.When I was in Grade One, what I used to get from every exam is just a zero grade.My father may be very disappointed, so he would push me very hard.A little thing is that I have a cousin and we two grew up together.What is he different from me? He was so intelligent at that time and even now.So, you can see, I would get a zero grade every time while he would get a full mark.That was why I was always reproached by my father.Things began to change when I was going to be in Grade Four.At that time, I changed my school.That means I was in the same primary school with my intelligent cousin.I thought I was not smart then because I need a time to self develop.Yes, when I began to have classes together with my cousin, I became intelligent gradually.Fortunately, I have met some good teachers in my life and they have very positive impact on me.The first good teacher I met appeared when I was in Grade Four.I was often praised because of my beautiful handwriting, a little like that of girls, actually.But it was good enough to be praised merely because no one in my class paid attention to their handwritings.So, you can see the situation.The second good teacher I met was my first English teacher.He is a facetious gentleman.Since I began to learn English after I entered my elementary school, I was not good at it at first.But after I was praised by him once, I was determined to study English well.Through a period’s crazy study, my English became very good.Therefore, in the second year of my elementary school, my English became that good.And when there was a difficult question frustrating him, he would ask me for advice.He taught me for three years until I graduated.I attributed my most sincere thanks to him.Of course, there were many other good teachers in my life, but I can't express my thanks for them one by one because this article is actually about my self-introduction.Above all, I'd like to say that teachers’ praise is a really motivation to us.Whatever, that is all about my own story.Exactly, it is about my story of the relationship between a student and teachers.