Content of Unit Twelve[مستر محمد عبد المنعم أبو منعم]

Lesson 1
* As cultures have their own languages so, they have their individual styles of music.

* Classical Music
It is composed and played by professional musicians. Western classical music was written by the well-known composers of the 18th and the 19th centuries. It is still enjoyed by people of different cultures. Umm Kalthoum's classical music is enjoyed all over the Arab world.

* Folk Music
It is the music of local communities that differs from place to place. While in Cairo we have a'oud music, in Upper Egypt there is the rababah. Folk music helps people get through their work or to record historical events.

* Pop Music
It is the most recent popular music. Its majority is in English. It makes a lot of money for recording companies, for performances and even for those who want to help the world's poorest people.

*Improvisation
In many parts of the world, music has hardly ever been written down. It is passed from teacher to pupil. This is applied to classical as well as folk music. Musicians may add their own ideas to a basic tune. Thus, improvisation takes place. For example, when Sayed Darwish learned the 19th century classical music, he improvised in a way that reflected Egyptian culture.

* Enjoying the music of other cultures
Written music, like written words, has its code. As a result of mass communication, people enjoy music of other cultures as well as of their own . Listening to music of other cultures will make you familiar with them.

Lesson 2
* Sayed Darwish is probably the most famous of all Arab musicians, like Mozart and Beethoven in western music.

* He was born in Kom Al-Dikka in 1892. He became the breadwinner of the family when his father died. He worked as a bricklayer for a time.

* He was asked to sing at a concert when someone heard his songs in his work and gradually became famous.

* His music was popular. His experience of working-class life made his songs powerful and understandable. Some of his work was nationalistic when the 1919 revolution started and Saad Zaghlul was sent into exile.

* Our national anthem was one of Mostafa Kamel's speeches which Sayed Darwish set to music.

He composed a song for Saad Zagloul's return from exile, but he died before his arrival when he was 31 years old.

Lesson 3
* A musician in Hampstead used to practise the bagpipe in his flat. The noise made the neighbours complain; so he practised in a large open park.

* The council informed him it was against the law. He was taken to court.

* He told the judge about a case in the 18th century of a piper who was accused of being a spy as he warned the enemy when the English came by playing the bagpipes. The court decreed that the bagpipes were not a musical instrument but a weapon. He was found guilty and was hanged.

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