令和５年度 山形県立米沢女子短期大学 英語英文学科

parts. Sometimes 1+1+1+1= more than 4.
I’ve played music with the same group of friends for 30 years, and on a good night we can readeach other’s minds, all of us knowing what the others will play before they play it. I’ve had the same
experience with musicians I hadn’t met before, sitting in with bands from Tokyo to Toronto with no

学校推薦型選抜・特別選抜 小論文 問題用紙

more in common than a general idea of the kind of music we were playing.
The language of music isn’t useful for asking or answering questions like “Where is the toilet?”【問題】次の英文を読み、以下の問題に答えなさい。算用数字やアルファベットを用いる

or “How many of my company’s products would your factory like to buy?” but music is the

場合には、解答用紙のます目に 2 文字記入すること。

language of the soul and we all understand it better than we can speak it.

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出典 Kevin Wood, “Music is a universal language,” The Japan Times alpha, May 29, 2020.
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1. 下記の文章を 500 字以上 600 字以内の日本語で要約しなさい。
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注【第一段落】

It is a universal language as old as civilization. You may not be as fluent as some others are, butcivilization 文明

every human can understand the basics. Music is humanity’s emotional language and no matterrhythm リズム

where we come from, we all speak a common language of rhythm, tone and melody.
Musical scales vary from culture to culture as do ideas about musical forms, but the emotions

musical scales 音階
歌手

Kitajima singing enka, are universal. No matter where we come from, we all feel the same emotions,【第三段落】

Knowing a lot about music or the culture a song comes from will make it easier to understand thehumanity 人類

vary 異なる

Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) アメリカのジャズ

Bobby McFerrin (1950- ) アメリカの歌手 Don’t Worry, Be Happy は彼の代表曲【第四段落】

details of what the song is saying, but happy music sounds happy and sad music sounds sad no

improvised 即興のmatter where you go. It doesn’t matter where you come from, Bobby McFerrin’s Don’t Worry, Be

work pretty much the same way ほぼ同様に機能する

Happy is a happy song and the Beatles’ Yesterday is a sad song.

take up~ ～に応じる

Improvised music is a conversation. I’ve played in and listened to jam sessions with people fromjam session 即興の演奏会

figure out~ ～を考え出すsame way. Someone starts a rhythm, someone plays a scrap of melody. Other players take up theend result 最終結果

emotion.
A jam session is communication at its most basic level and the things that are most important are
the things that are important in any conversation: Listen first, because it is only by listening that you
can figure out what to say. Don’t interrupt when others are speaking; your turn will come. It is aconversation, and like any successful group effort, the end result can be greater than the sum of its

involving~ ～を使った
scrap of~ ～の一片

【第五段落】

all over the world, involving everything from banjos to bagpipes, and they all work pretty much the
melody and the rhythm and suddenly they are all creating music together, sharing the expression ofcommon 共通の【第二段落】

communicated in a musical performance, whether it is Ella Fitzgerald singing jazz or Saburoand music expresses those emotions in a way other languages cannot.

fluent 堪能なinterrupt さえぎる

turn 順番

effort 試みsum of~ ～を合わせたもの【第六段落】
good 調子のよい

sitting in with~ ～と同席して～以外の共通点なしで【第七段落】
useful for~ ～に役立つ

general idea 概念

no more in common than~