What is your favorite kind of music? Do you like jazz, popular music, classical music, folk songs, blues, and so on? In high school I took one course called music appreciation which I greatly enjoyed. This was not to learn how to play a specific instrument but to learn how to read and listen to music as an art form. We read the stories about the lives of many composers and the history of the musical instruments themselves. Sometimes we listened to tapes at the language laboratory, or concerts. Music is sometimes called a universal language. A composer who cannot speak a single word of our language can make us feel joy and pride, exaltation and despair, peace and mystery through his music.

你最喜欢什么样的音乐呢？你喜欢爵士，流行音乐，古典音乐，民歌，布鲁斯蓝调？高中时，我参加了一个叫音乐赏析的课程，我很喜欢它。那并不是学习如何去玩一种特殊的乐器，而是以艺术的形式来学习阅读和聆听音乐。我们阅读许多作曲家的生活故事以及乐器本身的历史。有时我们在语言实验室听磁带，或去听音乐会。有时候音乐被称为是通俗的语言。一个作曲家可以通过音乐用我们的语言说一个字就能让我们感到开心、自豪、欣喜、绝望、平静和迷惑。