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Material culture refers to the touchable, material “things”— physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, used —that a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music-culture. The most vivid body of “things” in it, of course, are musical instruments. We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we car outline the spread of Near Eastern influence to Europe that resulted in the development of the instruments in the symphony orchestra.
Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music-cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation has a far-reaching effect on musicians and, when it becomes widespread, on the music-culture as a whole.
One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media-radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette, with the future promising talking and computers and other developments. This is all part of the “information revolution”, a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations; they have affected music-cultures all over the globe.
A
it helps produce new cultural tools and technology
B
it can reflect the development of the nation
C
it helps understand the nation‘s past and present
D
it can demonstrate the nation‘s civilization
正确答案 :C
解析
细节理解题。根据文章首段第二句提到,研究一种文化中的工具和技术可以告诉我们这个群体的历史和生活方式(Examining a culture’s tools… way of life),C项“它可以帮助理解这个民族的过去和现在”是此信息的同义表述,故C项符合题意。A项“它能帮助产生新的文化工具和技术”利用tools and technology 设置干扰,原文首段第二句只是说,研究一种文化中的工具和技术就可以知道这个群体的历史和生活方式,A项与此表述不符。B项“它可以反映这个民族的发展”和D项“它能证实这个民族的文明”均未在文中被提及。给本题答案为C。
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