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Music is often divided into several categories(类别), or groups. Some of the categories are: classical music, traditional music, rock music, and jazz music.
The first kind, classical music, refers to orchestra(管弦乐队) music that originated(发源) in Europe a few hundred years ago. Most of the original classical music was composed or written in Italy, Germany, Austria, or Russia. 11.
D
The second type of music is traditional music. It comes from a particular culture. 12.
E
For example, “blues music” is a kind of traditional music in the United States and “enka music” is one kind of traditional music in Japan. Each traditional music has its own special instruments.
13.
A
It is generally a loud kind of music, played with a strong beat. Rock musicians often use electric instruments. Rock music probably began in Europe about 30 or 40 years ago. It became very popular, especially among young people, during the 1960s and 1970s.
The fourth kind of music is jazz. Jazz probably comes from Africa. 14.
F
Different kinds of musical instruments are used to play this kind of music, especially wind instruments.
15.
B
In addition, many kinds of music are combinations(结合) of classical music and traditional music, or classical music and jazz, or rock and jazz, and so on.
A. Another kind of music is rock music.
B. Of course there are other categories of music.
C. People usually enjoy music during the free time.
D. It is usually played by the string and wind instruments.
E. Every culture has its own special form of traditional music.
F. It has different kinds of rhythm(节奏) from other kinds of music.