tailieunhanh - BÀI TEST READING (6)

Trong giới kinh doanh, kỳ thi TOEIC là điều bắt buộc. Nhiều câu hỏi trong kỳ thi này mang đặc tính của tiếng Anh kinh doanh, điều này phản ánh tầm quan trọng của kỳ thi TOEIC trong môi trường kinh doanh quốc tế ngày nay. Kỳ thi TOEIC là cơ hội để bạn thể hiện và chứng tỏ cho thế giới biết kiến thức của bạn ra sao. | BÀI TEST READING 6 READING PASSAGE 3 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 30 - 40 which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. Haydn s late quartets By the time he came to write the String Quartets published as Opus 76 and Opus 77 Haydn was undoubtedly the most famous living composer in the whole of Europe. He had recently returned from the highly successful second visit to England for which he had composed his last six symphonies culminating in the brilliant and festive Drum Roll Symphony No. 103 and London Symphony No. 104 . This is public music full of high spirits expansive gestures and orchestral surprises. Haydn knew how to please his audience. And in 1796 following his return to Vienna he began work on his largest and most famous choral work the oratorio The Creation . In the succeeding years till 1802 he was to write a series of other large scale religious choral works including several masses. The oratorios and masses were also public works employing large forces for dramatic effect but warm and full of apparently spontaneous religious feeling. Yet at the same time he composed these 8 quartets in terms of technical mastery and sheer musical invention the equal of the symphonies and choral works but in their mood and emotional impact far removed by turns introspective and detached or full of passionate intensity. Once again as in the early 1770s when he appears to have been going through some kind of spiritual crisis Haydn returned to the String Quartets as a means to accomplish a twofold aim firstly to innovate musically in a genre free from public performance requirements or religious convention secondly to express personal emotions or philosophy in a musical form that is intimate yet capable of great subtlety and complexity of meaning. The result is a series of quartets of astonishing structural melodic