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AUTUMN 2015 – 9TH GRADE
The impact of music
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CONTENTS
Perspectives on the impact of music
If music be the food of love, play on. How right Shakespeare was. Is there
anything that can compare to the way music can move human hearts?
A tune, a song, can lift our mood, reflect our sorrows, raise our passion,
and focus our minds (well, that one is up for debate).
Whether music plays a minor or major role in your life, it is one of the things
which separates us from all other animals. So, go ahead, be human: hum,
sing, strum, drum and dance your hearts out!
impact
her: slagkraft
to lift someone’s mood
å muntre noen opp /
å muntre nokon opp
to hum
å nynne
to strum
å klimpre
The Loudest Shadow
4
The impact of music
6
Band of hope
8
A bombing site became this conductor’s scene
10
Sing our own song
12
Music and homework
14
Music and personality
16
The Book Thief
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THE LOUDEST
TITTELSHADOW
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The Loudest Shadow
Music comes in so many forms. It can be hard, soft, loud, and
mellow. It surrounds us all day long, even in the rhythms of our
speech, the unintended rhymes. According to this young poet,
music is the loudest shadow. Read his beautiful poem and feel the
music:
It begins as a noise in the background
keeping steady beat as it makes its round
it can be found at any time of day
it’s so simple, just push play
[…]
It lingers as if ready at any possible time
to lift you off your feet and begin to fly
away from all the grief, sorrow and pain
to tell your mind that it’s free again
No judging or casting a nasty glare
nope, just to let you know that it’s always there
as the shoulder to cry on when no one else cares
and casts you alone to face all of your scares
mellow
rolig/roleg
unintended
ikke planlagt /
ikkje planlagd
according to
ifølge/ifølgje
a steady beat
en jevn takt /
ein jamn takt
to linger
å vedvare / å vare ved
to cast a nasty glare
å se stygt på /
å sjå stygt på
scares
redsler
fortsetter på neste side 
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THE LOUDEST SHADOW
[…]
To be there for whenever you desire
is its one purpose, to light your fire
it can’t be stopped if the will is steady
it can be unleashed, it’s always ready
a purpose
et formål / eit formål
if the will is steady
hvis viljen er sterk / viss
viljen er sterk
to be unleashed
å bli sluppet løs / å bli
sloppen laus
To light up your day or slow down the time
to yell at the world, or even to cry
to help you with whatever you may need
or just to be there for whenever you please
It will live until the end of time
serving its purpose, to let its light shine
remember family, friends and even pets
but most of all music never forget
© Anthony
LINKS
http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-loudestshadow#c37508
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THE IMPACT
TITTEL
OF MUSIC
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The impact of music
People love music. They are inspired and influenced by it and
that’s a fact! This includes famous people – take a look at what
some of them have said. Which of these quotes is singing your
kind of song?
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
– Bob Marley
influenced by
påvirket av / påverka av
a physicist
en fysiker / ein fysikar
in terms of
i form av
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”
― Taylor Swift
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think
in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein
fortsetter på neste side 
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THE IMPACT OF MUSIC
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the
imagination and life to everything.”
― Plato
“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don’t even
notice.”
– Sarah Vaughan
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
– Bono, U2
“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realise.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“Ah, music,” [Dumbledore] said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all
we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people
who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart
opens.”
― Maria Augusta von Trapp
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flight
her: flukt
mankind
menneskeheten /
menneskeætta, alle
menneske
a uniter
noe/noen som forener
/ noko/nokon som
foreinar
to differ on something
å være uenige om noe /
å vere ueinige om noko
to have in common
å ha til felles
BAND
TITTEL
OF HOPE
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Band of Hope
Hopewell Junior High School band shares its music
with young patients
Sharing music is something that people do instinctively. When
we hear a song we enjoy, we want our friends to experience it
too. But we don’t just have to share with our friends. High school
students in the United States used music to connect with others
and remove barriers of difference.
Hopewell Junior High School’s Band of Hope once again brought its
“power of music” to children with special needs who are patients at
Pediatric Specialty Care of Hopewell. […]
Band of Hope is an after-school music program open to seventhand eighth-grade band students at the junior high. When the group
played on May 27 for about 20 children at Pediatric Specialty Care,
it was the sixth concert the band had performed at the facility. The
band members also host a story time for the patients and bring small
instruments for them to play.
Band of Hope was formed in January under the direction of band
director Kerry Wilson. “I really want to teach them about the power
of music and how much it affects people and connects everyone,” Ms.
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special needs
særskilte behov /
særskilde behov
Pediatric Specialty Care
barneavdeling på
sykehus / barneavdeling
på sjukehus
facility
her: institusjonen
to host a story time
å arrangere en/
ei eventyrstund
a band director
en bandleder /
ein bandleiar
fortsetter på neste side 
BAND OF HOPE
Wilson said of the Band of Hope members. “I thought it would be a
great chance for the students to provide music-making opportunities to
students who may not receive them.
The band’s 27 members meet once a week for a two-hour practice
after school. Each month, the band heads to Pediatric Specialty Care to
perform a mini concert of popular music such as soundtracks from the
movies Frozen and The Little Mermaid and hits by singer Katy Perry.
Eighth-grader Liam Watters, 13, plays the baritone and said it was a
love of music and the opportunity to give back to the community that
drew him to join the band. During one concert, he learned that one
of the patients likes to listen to singing, so he and a few other band
members went back to the patient’s room and sang to him. “That was
really cool,” Liam said.
Maddi Maxwell, 13, plays the clarinet and said she wanted to be
a part of the band because of her family’s involvement with special
needs children. She said it was exciting playing for the children and
their reactions were different from those of adults who listen to them
perform. “They squealed and had big smiles on their faces,” she said
of the children. She recalled one young boy who kept the beat during a
concert with a balloon he was holding in his hand. Maddi came up with
the band’s slogan: “Making a difference one note at a time.”
Ellen Davis, 13, has played percussion since fourth grade and
said music has been a good way for her to express herself. It also has
boosted her confidence, she said. She joined the band with the hope
that it would do the same for other children. “I thought it would be a
really cool experience to see how music affects people and to see how
it brings kids to express themselves in different ways, especially kids
with disabilities,” she said. […]
Copyright © 1997–2015 PG Publishing Co., Inc. Used by permission.
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a music-making
opportunity
en mulighet til å skape
musikk / ei moglegheit
til å skape musikk
involvement
engasjement
to squeal
å hvine / å kvine
to recall
å huske / å hugse
to keep the beat
å holde takten /
å halde takten
percussion
slagverk
to affect
å virke på / å verke på
A BOMBING SITE BECAME
TITTEL
THIS CONDUCTOR’S SCENE
NTB Scanpix / SABAH ARAR /AFP
A bombing site became
this conductor’s scene
What place does music have in a war zone? To the Iraqi people,
shattered and torn by conflict for decades, music brings that sense
of connection and an antidote to the brutality they witness. Can
you imagine yourself there with them?
“It’s a way of expressing my feelings,” he said.
On May 2, 2015, two bombs killed about 20 people and injured
dozens more in the busy Karrada district of Baghdad.
Unfortunately, occurrences like this are all too common in the region,
as are the feelings of fear, distress, and grief that linger. But what
happened next in Karrada made this day quite different.
Karim Wasfi, the conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony
Orchestra, brought his cello to the bombing site.
shattered
knust
torn
revet i stykker /
rive i stykke
decades
tiår
an antidote
en motgift / ei motgift
an occurrence
en hendelse /
ei hending
all too common
altfor vanlig /
altfor vanleg
distress
lidelse/liding
a conductor
en dirigent / ein dirigent
fortsetter på neste side 
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A BOMBING SITE BECAME THIS CONDUCTOR’S SCENE
Right there, amidst the rubble and the chaos, he sat down and
played. A crowd began to form. People gathered with cameras and
loved ones and allowed the power of the music to wash over them.
Wasfi said this in an interview with Al Jazeera: “[People] loved it.
Soldiers cried. They kissed, they clapped, they felt alive, they felt
human and they felt appreciated and respected.”
Some folks might wonder why this accomplished musician would sit
and play music in such a place. Here is the answer he gave Al Jazeera:
“It was an action to try to equalise things, to reach the equilibrium
between ugliness, insanity, and grotesque, indecent acts of terror
– to equalise it, or to overcome it, by acts of beauty, creativity, and
refinement.”
[…]
Isn’t that the truth? Music and art can transcend even the most
awful situations to remind us of our humanity. Wasfi said he doesn’t
want people of Iraq to only think of death on a daily basis, but rather to
remember that life is lived every day.
© Cloud Tiger Media. Used by permission.
LINKS:
https://www.upworthy.com/listen-to-the-beautiful-music-thisconductor-played-after-a-deadly-incident-in-baghdad?c=tpstream
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amidst
blant
rubble
steinrester/steinrestar
to feel appreciated
å føle seg verdsatt /
å kjenne seg verdsett
accomplished
her: vel ansett, dyktig /
høgt akta, dyktig
to equalise
å utjevne / å jamne ut
equilibrium
likevekt
indecent acts of terror
forferdelige
terrorhandlinger
/ forferdelege
terrorhandlingar
refinement
eleganse
to transcend
å overskride, heve seg
over
SING OUR
TITTEL
OWN SONG
Getty Images / Scott Peterson
Sing Our Own Song
Written by Brown, Wilson, Virtue, Travers, Hassan, Falconer, Campbell & Campbell
Music can be powerful, in many ways. It can be used to shed light
on injustice, inequality and cruelty. The song lyrics below were
written by a British group called UB40 in 1986, as a protest song
against apartheid in South Africa. What did the South African
government do? They censored the song. But the rest of the world
listened …
The great flood of tears that we’ve cried
For our brothers and sisters who’ve died
Over four hundred years has washed away our fears
And strengthened our pride, now we turn back the tide
injustice
urettferdighet/urett
to censor
å sensurere
to turn back the tide
å snu tidevannet /
å snu tidvatnet
to seize the control
å ta kontrollen
to fan the flame
å nøre opp under
We will no longer hear your command
We will seize the control from your hand
We will fan the flame of our anger and pain
And you’ll feel the shame for what you do in God’s name
fortsetter på neste side 
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SING OUR OWN SONG
We will fight for the right to be free
And we will build our own society
And we will sing, we will sing
We will sing our own song
Amandla Awethu
sørafrikansk slagord:
«makt til folket»
When the ancient drum rhythms ring
The voice of our forefathers sings
Forward Africa run our day of freedom has come
For me and for you Amandla Awethu
We will fight for the right to be free
And we will build our own society
And we will sing, we will sing
We will sing our own song
[…]
© Capitol Music Group. Used by permission.
LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiE1Ir0Gnxc
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MUSIC AND
TITTEL
HOMEWORK
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Music and homework
Should students listen to music while doing
homework?
Do you listen to music while completing homework? There’s an
ongoing debate about whether listening to music while doing
homework is helpful or unhelpful. Sarah and Esther are two 11th
graders who disagree on the topic:
Answer: No, never. Sarah Lucca
Many students feel that listening to music while doing homework
will help them work more efficiently. Unfortunately, music is a major
distraction, especially music that contains lyrics. While doing homework
and listening to music, not only is your brain trying to comprehend the
words you’re seeing, but also the words you’re hearing. So just listen
to instrumental music, right? Sadly, this won’t change that fact that
listening to anything while doing homework is a distraction, which can
cause you to retain less information. In the end, this can result in lack of
knowledge and lower test scores. So the next time you sit down to do
homework, it may just be best to do it in silence.
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ongoing
pågående /
som går føre seg
efficiently
effektivt
to comprehend
å forstå
to retain
å bevare
lack of
mangel på
fortsetter på neste side 
MUSIC AND HOMEWORK
Answer: Yes, if it works. Esther Garcia
Speaking from personal experience, I have found it very helpful to listen
to music while doing my homework. Everyone learns differently, so the
answer to this question is more complex than just a ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Often,
I find myself having to turn on music to be able to tune out other noise
in my home. There are always members of my family home, and it is
always quite noisy. Music allows me to focus more on my work. I have
always received mixed reactions from my friends as well. Some say it
is impossible for them to listen to music and do homework, but others
would agree that it is difficult to complete homework without music. So
should a student do homework while listening to music? Well-- that is
completely up to the student, but I think there is no harm in trying!
© Patch Media. Used by permission.
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complex
sammensatt/samansett
to tune out
å stenge ute /
å stengje ute
MUSIC TASTE LINKED
TITTELTO PERSONALITY
Getty
Images
/ PYMCA
Getty
Images/NASA
Music taste linked to
personality
Does the type of music you listen to define your personality and
character? According to a psychology professor’s research it does.
What music does your heart move to?
Heavy metal fans are gentle, indie music listeners lack self-esteem and
lovers of pop music are uncreative, according to research out today.
The study on the links between personality and music taste has
been conducted by a psychology professor over the last three years.
He found that country and western fans are hard-working, rap fans
outgoing, and jazz and classical music supporters are innovative and
bursting with self-confidence.
to define
å definere
gentle
her: sympatisk
indie music
musikk utgitt på mindre,
uavhengige plateselskap
to lack self-esteem
å mangle selvtillit /
å mangle sjølvtillit
to conduct
å gjennomføre
outgoing
utadvendt/utåtvend
bursting with selfconfidence
være svært selvsikker /
vere svært sjølvsikker
fortsetter på neste side 
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MUSIC TASTE LINKED TO PERSONALITY
Contrary to the stereotype, heavy metal fans are gentle and at ease
with themselves but they tend not to be hardworking. Those who listen
to heavy metal and classical music share character traits, according
to the research, such as being creative, at ease and introverted. But
classical music fans have high self-esteem while heavy rock fans lack
self-belief.
More than 36,000 people around the globe took part in the survey,
the biggest of its type ever conducted. They were asked to rate 104
musical styles in the study and were also questioned on aspects of their
personality.
Find out what your music taste says about you …
Bollywood: Creative, outgoing
Funk: High self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, outgoing and at ease
Classical music: High self-esteem, creative, introvert and at ease
Rap: High self-esteem, outgoing
Disco: High self-esteem, not creative, hard-working, outgoing, gentle
Indie: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not gentle
Punk: Lack self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not gentle
Rock and roll: High self-esteem, creative, hard-working, not gentle, at ease
Rock/heavy metal: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not
outgoing, gentle, at ease
Chart pop: High self-esteem, not creative, hard-working, outgoing,
gentle, not at ease
Soul: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle, at ease
[…]
© DMG Media. Used by permission.
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at ease with yourself
å være trygg på seg selv /
å vere trygg på seg sjølv
a character trait
et karaktertrekk /
eit karaktertrekk
introverted
introvert, tilbakeholden/
tilbakehalden
self-belief
tro på seg selv /
tru på seg sjølv
a survey
en undersøkelse /
ei undersøking
THE BOOK
TITTELTHIEF
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/ Thinkstock
Getty Images/NASA
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
World War II is escalating and in the small town of Molching,
Germany, a nine-year-old girl named Liesel lives in a foster home.
Her brother is dead, her mother is gone and the Nazi-regime has
a firm grip on the country. Hans and Rosa Hubermann, who Liesel
now calls Papa and Mama, try their best to comfort and take care
of Liesel. Money is short, war is close, and fear is in the streets.
But the music is alive …
[…]
Hans Hubermann sat sleepy-eyed on the bed and Liesel would cry into
his sleeves and breathe him in. Every morning, just after two o’clock,
she fell asleep again to the smell of him. It was a mixture of dead
cigarettes, decades of paint, and human skin. At first, she sucked it all
in, then breathed it, until she drifted back down. Each morning, he was
a few feet away from her, crumpled, almost halved, in the chair. He
never used the other bed. Liesel would climb out and cautiously kiss his
cheek and he would wake up and smile.
Some days Papa told her to get back into bed and wait a minute,
and he would return with his accordion and play for her. Liesel would
sit up and hum, her cold toes clenched with excitement. No one had
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to escalate
å eskalere, trappe opp
crumpled
sammenkrøllet/
samankrølla
cautiously
forsiktig
an accordion
et trekkspill /
eit trekkspel
clenched
her: krøllet sammen /
krølla saman
fortsetter på neste side 
THE BOOK THIEF
ever given her music before. She would grin herself stupid, watching
the lines drawing themselves down his face and the soft metal of his
eyes–until the swearing arrived from the kitchen.
“STOP THAT NOISE, SAUKERL!”
Papa would play a little longer. He would wink at the girl, and
clumsily, she’d wink back.
A few times, purely to incense Mama a little further, he also brought
the instrument to the kitchen and played through breakfast.
Papa’s bread and jam would be half eaten on his plate, curled into
the shape of bite marks, and the music would look Liesel in the face.
I know it sounds strange, but that’s how it felt to her. Papa’s right
hand strolled the tooth-coloured keys. His left hit the buttons. (She
especially loved to see him hit the silver, sparkled button–the C major.)
The accordion’s scratched yet shiny black exterior came back and forth
as his arms squeezed the dusty bellows, making it suck in the air and
throw it back out. In the kitchen on those mornings, Papa made the
accordion live. I guess it makes sense, when you really think about it.
How do you tell if something’s alive?
You check for breathing.
[…]
Copyright © Markus Zusak 2005
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/markuszusak/
LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEnLF-pCybw
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to grin oneself stupid
å smile som en tulling /
å smile som ein tulling
swearing
banning
saukerl
tysk banneord: svin
to wink
å blunke
to incense
å fyre opp
to stroll
å vandre over
exterior
ytre
bellows
blåsebelg