UNIT 8

### ART AND CREATIVITY

### Lesson 1. Music is Food for Our Souls

Getting ready for the task:

• What is music for you?
• What can music give people?
• What impressions can music create in you?
• What kind of music do you like to listen to and why?

Key words:

spiritual - relating to people’s thoughts
appeal - the quality of being interesting and attractive
to maintain - to make smth continue at the same level/standard to keep
aesthetic - made in an artistic way
mankind - all human beings thought about as a large group
to enrich - to improve or enhance the quality or value of smth
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CW/PW. Listen to the passage and share your comments on music using the given words/word combinations.

high spirit, mood, entertainment, fun, useful, the part of life, enjoyable, a great pleasure, brilliant, important part, spiritual

*emotional - sentimental

LISTEN AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS! Read Listening Material
Listen to the passage and answer the following questions.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   A) Different types of Mugham
   B) Music schools in Azerbaijan
   C) History of Azerbaijani music
   D) Classical music genres in the world
   E) A genre of Azerbaijani classical music
2. Which is not mentioned?
   A) Mugham is a classical music
   B) Mugham has a long history
   C) There are three mugham schools
   D) Next Mugham Festival is in Gabala
   E) Rast and Shur are types of Mugham
3. Choose the correct statement.
   A) Mugham is mixture of rock and jazz
   B) Mugham schools are famous in the world
   C) International Mugham Festival is a jazz festival
   D) Shusha, Garabagh and Baku ara mugham school names
   E) Mugham schools performance started in the 20th century
4. When did UNESCO declare mugham one of the masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity?
5. Complete the sentence according to the passage.
   The Heydar Aliyev Foundation and … organized International Mugham Festival in 2009.

The Azerbaijani people have a very rich culture of music. Mugham is the main genre of Azerbaijani classical music. The birthplace of mugham is Azerbaijan. In 2002, UNESCO declared mugham one of the masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The History of Azerbaijani mugham dates back to the ancient periods. Three major schools of mugham performance existed in the 20th century: Garabagh mugham school, Shusha mugham school and Baku mugham school. Mughams like Rast, Shur, Bayati Shiraz and so on are famous all over the world. The main theme of mugham is usually love for the motherland, nature and mystical love for God. The Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism together decided to organize the International Mugham Festival. The first festival took place in 2009. The aim of the festival is to show mugham to the world. Organisers invite a lot of musicians from different countries to join the festival.

1. What is the passage mainly about?
   A) Different types of Mugham
   B) Music schools in Azerbaijan
   C) History of Azerbaijani music
   D) Classical music genres in the world
   E) A genre of Azerbaijani classical music
2. Which is not mentioned?
   A) Mugham is a classical music
   B) Mugham has a long history
   C) There are three mugham schools
   D) Next Mugham Festival is in Gabala
   E) Rast and Shur are types of Mugham
3. Choose the correct statement.
   A) Mugham is mixture of rock and jazz
   B) Mugham schools are famous in the world
   C) International Mugham Festival is a jazz festival
   D) Shusha, Garabagh and Baku ara mugham school names
   E) Mugham schools performance started in the 20th century
4. When did UNESCO declare mugham one of the masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity?
   Answer: “in 2002”
5. Complete the sentence according to the passage.
   The Heydar Aliyev Foundation and … organized International Mugham Festival in 2009.
   Answer: “the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism”