life can be music 生活如歌

Life can be music

Outline

Specific Purpo: to inform audience the different styles of music and some famous

musicians.

Central idea: the different music styles and some famous musicians.

Introduction:

i. Do you like to listen to music?

ii. Which kind of music do you always listen to?

iii. Who is your favorite musician?

iv. Today, I would like to share highlights of music and hope can help you to

appreciate music in your daily life.

(Transition: let’s start today’s music feast.)

Body

(In the ancient time, people ud unified rhythm to pass on the information, which is

the origin of music. Today, music has developed a lot, becoming more systematic. )

Classification of music:

i. Blues:

A. began in the early twentieth the southern part of the USA.

B. mixed the rhythm and cadences recite form in the church.

C. ten-comfort

D. emphasize lf emotions and originality

ii. Rock and Roll:

A. Originated in the 1904s, the end of the USA.

B. Flexible bold forms and passionate music rhythm

C. Combine the country music if white America with the rhythm and blues sound

loved by black US citizens

iii. Hip hop music (rap):

A. consist of a rhythmic vocal style called rap

B. Began in the Bronx, in new your city in the 1970s meanly among African

Americans and Latino Americans.

C. The important component of the main street culture

D. pronunciation is the most thing, followed by speed and feeling

iv. Country music (blue collar music):

A. come from the American countryside in the 1920s

B. u simple instruments and song to express feeling

C. smooth, charming, simple structure

v. Jazz:

A.

improvisation

B.

has lots of manners of articulation trill

C.

u many instruments and try to show their own characters

(Transition: now that we have learned the classification of music, I’d like to introduce

a master in rock and roll, can you guess who he is? )

A. we call him the hillbilly cat, king of rock and roll

B. Born in January 8th, 1935, a small village in Mississippi East Tupelo

C. influenced deeply by The black Gospel music and The traditional country music

D. His music has stepped over the boundaries of race and culture. The country music,

blues music, and mountain rock digest, formed the unique style with distinctive

personality, which strong shook the pop music, and rock music began to like a

whirlwind sweep across the world.

Conclusion

As we have en, the music has so many different styles. Hope you can learn

something through my speech.

I hope my brief introduction can help you to distinguish them when you occasionally

hear them and can arou your interest in music.

Music has always fascinated us in the way that it communicates without words,

without pictures. So let’s drown in music and love it. Life can be music.