汤亚汀主编的《实用高级音乐英语选读(英汉对照本)》文字多选自近20年来的英美原文原著,而且较前一本复旦版《音乐英语》更为艰深一些,有些文体似可归于散文体(essay style),颇能体现英语语言之美。本书内容偏重于近20年的国际音乐创作、表演及学术现状与前沿。全书共分作五大单元,即:音乐会节目单与CD介绍(Concerts and Recordings:Programs and Profiles);音乐图书广告介绍(Books and Leanets);学术论文摘要(Abstracts for Academies and Symposiums);乐谱与图书序文/前言(Prefaces and Introductions);辞典与百科条目(Dictionaries and Encyclopedi-as)。每一单元后还附有进一步阅读与翻译的练习(sample exercises)供教师和读者选择使用。
Editor’s Preface 编者的话
Unit One Concerts and Recordings:Programs and Profiles 音乐会节目单与CD介绍
1.Ralph Vaughan Williams:Orchestral Works
2.Britannia
3.Entente Cordiale
4.The University of Sydney:Sound of Bamboo
Unit Two Books and Leaflets 音乐图书广告介绍
1.Nineteenth-Century American Musical Theater
2.Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
3.Music in the Plays of Shakespeare
4.Two Leaflets for Chinese Music
Unit Three Abstracts for Academies and Symposiums 学术论文摘要
1.Western Composers and Compositions (I)
2.Western Composers and Compositions (II)
3.Chinese Traditional Music (I)
4.Chinese Traditional Music (II)
Unit Four Prefaces and Introductions 乐谱与图书序文/前言
1.Bernstein and the Piano
2.Britten’s Three Orchestral Song-Cycles
3.Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms
4.Pomp & Circumstance No.6
Unit Five Dictionaries and Encyclopedias 辞典与百科条目
1.Performing Practice
2.Piano Playing
3.History of European Art Music
4.China:A Musical Profile
Appendix
1.Keys to Chinese-English Translation 汉译英参考答案
2.音乐文献外译:语言学对策三议