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There was a time in the late 17 th century when no respectable monarch would be seen without a guitar. Both Louis XIV and Charle
There was a time in the late 17 th century when no respectable monarch would be seen without a guitar. Both Louis XIV and Charle
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2019-08-17
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There was a time in the late 17 th century when no respectable monarch would be seen without a guitar. Both Louis XIV and Charles II were dab hands. And the future Queen Anne thought a guitar tutor was worth an annual stipend of £100, which was a small fortune then.
The instrument had seen revivals in the early 19th century and the early 20th, when its place in the concert hall was finally secured by Andres Segovia. A further decade in the sun in the 1970s resulted from the maturity of two gifted young guitarists: Julian Bream and John Williams. But in the past three decades, this subtle musical voice has grown quieter and quieter. Until now, Deutsche Gramophon has signed its first classical guitarist in years. Milos Karadaglic’s debut CD of Mediterranean repertoire is out this month and includes pieces by two popular composers.
The 27-year-old Montenegrin blames the pop world for his instrument’s demise. "With the invention of the electric guitar, the instrument stopped being intimate and started to reach out into wider audiences, " he explains. "These technological advances resulted in the core classical guitar repertoire fading away. The guitar’s popularity within pop detracted from its popularity within the classical world. "
But the electric-guitar did not blow its classical cousin out the water. In the 20th century, interest in the older, more refined instrument waxed and waned. Why? One theory puts it down to economics. The two decades that saw the classical guitar thrive were decades of recession—the 1930s and the 1970s. Now, during another financial crisis, the classical guitar’s intimate strains seem again to be offering a spiritual succor in straitened times.
Mr. Karadaglic thinks the reason for the latest upward interest may be simpler: an attempt by man to escape the technological flimflammery of the modern world. " Advanced technologies are taking away our privacy, " he argues, " so another cycle is starting. People are now realizing the beauty in things that are pure and natural. " And no instrument can compete in these stakes better than the guitar, whose every sound is made sensitively and directly by the hands: "The honesty of this way of music-making makes the guitar supreme. It’s so personal and delicate. "
The guitar has never been collectivized or corralled into an orchestra like the violin. It is the cat of the musical world. And as such, it has developed many divergent traditions. For the first time its most dangerous rival, the electric guitar, is seeing fashions turn against it. Taste in pop music(heading folkwards)and classical appear to be coming together. So it is the perfect time for the classical guitar to find a new lease of life and a new cycle.
The first two paragraphs show that
选项
A、one guitar would be worth a fortune in Queen Anne’s period.
B、Andres Segovia often played the guitar in concert halls.
C、the guitar was out of favour because of its subtle sound.
D、the 1970s witnessed another ten years’ popularity of the guitar.
答案
D
解析
推理题。题目问的是“从前两段可以得出——。”。ABC三项前两段均未提及。根据第二段的第二句“A further dec—ade in the sun in the 1970s resulted from the maturity of two giftedyoung guitarists.”可知,D项为正确答案。
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