Упр.2 Юнит 2 Step 10 ГДЗ Rainbow English 11 класс
II. Reading
Read the text about the British composer Henry Purcell and complete it with the statements (a—g).
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell was born in 1659 in London. After his father he became a chorister, (1). The talented boy started (2). He composed the music to the works by the most prominent (3) of his time. His compositions contain songs and choruses which never fail to please, (4).
At the age of 21, Henry Purcell was appointed organist of Westminster Abbey. It was the most honourable position an English musician (5) at that time. For six years Purcell devoted himself almost completely to the composition of religious music. At the same time he wrote the musical drama Dido and Aeneas, which became one of (6) in England. In it there is not a word of spoken dialogue and the music is full of inspiration.
The opera was very popular among private circles. But Purcell’s greatest work is considered to be Te Deum, a religious (7), composed with orchestral accompaniment. It was so perfect that in the years to come it was annually performed in St Paul’s Cathedral. Purcell died in 1695 and was buried under the organ in Westminster Abbey.
- a) could occupy at that time
- b) hymn praising God
- c) a singer in the Chapel Royal
- d) even at the present day
- e) composing music at the age of nine
- f) poets of his time
- g) the first real operas in England
1 — c, 2 — e, 3 — f, 4 — d, 5 — a, 6 — g, 7 — b.
Completed text:
Henry Purcell was born in 1659 in London. After his father he became a chorister, a singer in the Chapel Royal. The talented boy started composing music at the age of nine. He composed the music to the works by the most prominent poets of his time. His compositions contain songs and choruses which never fail to please, even at the present day.
At the age of 21, Henry Purcell was appointed organist of Westminster Abbey. It was the most honourable position an English musician could occupy at that time. For six years Purcell devoted himself almost completely to the composition of religious music. At the same time he wrote the musical drama Dido and Aeneas, which became one of the first real operas in England. In it there is not a word of spoken dialogue and the music is full of inspiration. The opera was very popular among private circles.
But Purcell’s greatest work is considered to be Te Deum, a religious hymn praising God, composed with orchestral accompaniment. It was so perfect that in the years to come it was annually performed in St Paul’s Cathedral.
