Chào các thính giả yêu mến của chương trình Học Tiếng Anh qua các chủ đề của chương trình học tiếng anh cùng Radiome. Mình là Diệu Hoa.
Các bạn thân mến, trong cuộc sống có vô vàn đề tài thú vị, giúp chúng ta có cái nhìn đa chiều về mọi phương diện cũng như tạo điều kiện trao đổi những hướng suy nghĩ và cách giải quyết vấn đề khác nhau. Mọi đề tài đều không bao giờ cũ và có tính thời sự riêng biệt. Đến với bài học ngày hôm nay, để giúp các bạn nâng cao khả năng nghe hiểu bao gồm từ vựng, cấu trúc câu và giọng địa phương, chúng ta cùng đến với chủ đề hấp dẫn ngày hôm nay. Đó chính là: Music for Marching.
Chủ đề này mang nghĩa là âm nhạc cho cuộc diễu hành. 
Vì bài nghe khá dài nên mình sẽ tách làm hai phần để các bạn dễ dàng theo dõi hơn nhé!
Các bạn cùng chú ý lắng nghe với tiết tấu chậm rãi của chương trình Spotlight nhé. Hãy lưu lại những từ bạn nghe chưa rõ và xem lại ở bản text để làm phong phú thêm vốn từ vựng của mình nhé!
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Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Adam Navis.
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And I’m Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
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Music can move us. It can make us want to dance. It can put us to sleep. It can inspire us. But what about this music? What does this music make you think about? Does it make you want to get up and walk around? That is what it is designed to do. This form of music is called a march. Marches began as military music. But they have become something much more. Today’s Spotlight is on the music of the march.
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Military leaders have known for a long time that music is good way to communicate with soldiers. For example, in the United States, the Army uses trumpets to tell soldiers what to do. For example, this is the music that tells soldiers to get up in the morning. This is the music that tells them it is time to sleep.
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Marches started as a way to help soldiers move from one place to another. Musical Marches got their name from the rhythmic marching of soldiers. Marches have a regular beat. They often include musical instruments like horns, drums, and flutes.

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People wrote the first marches during the 1800s. They became popular in the Ottoman Empire. Today this is the country of Turkey. But marches were not only used in battle. Every time there was a new leader of the Ottoman Empire, a musician wrote a new march in his honor.
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Turkish marches influenced many great music writers. Mozart, Hayden, and Beethoven all wrote marches. Military bands did not perform these marches. Instead, they were performed by professional orchestras in great concert halls.
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But one person has defined the modern march more than any other. His name is John Philip Sousa. Here is one of Sousa’s most famous marches, called “Stars and Stripes Forever”. It is the official march of the United States.
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Sousa was born in 1854. This was around the time of the civil war in the United States. Sousa grew up in Washington D.C., the capital city of the U.S. There many soldiers there. All these soldiers needed many musical bands to help them march. Sousa learned a lot by watching these musicians. And when he was 13 years old, Sousa joined the Marine Corps Band. He did not fight. But he played a lot of music - especially marches.
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When Sousa became an adult, he left the Marine Corps Band. But he continued to write and play marches. He traveled from city to city playing music. Sousa became very famous. Years later he was invited to return to the Marine Corps Band. But it was not as a player — it was as the leader of the band! There, he wrote this song, called “Semper Fidelis”. It is the official march of the US Marines
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Today, Sousa’s music continues to define the march. It shapes other music, from rap to pop and country. And without Sousa we would probably not have modern marching band competitions. This is a marching band competition:
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