【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] Today I just want to say something about the influence of nationalism on the composers' music. Here I should discuss an important composer's, Béla Bartók. He was a wonderful and ground-breaking composer, whose life stretched from the late nineteenth century to the middle of twentieth century. Bartók was born in Austria-Hungary, a nation that broke apart when he was about forty years old. Actually, the town where he was born is presently part of Roman. During Bartók's youth, the music played in the concert halls of Austria-Hungary was dominated by Romantic pieces by mostly German composers. These pieces were long and expressed deep personal emotion. And in the early 1900s, composers who worked in the Romantic style were the most popular in Austria-Hungary. But Bartók, he was part of the musical community that was trying to change this. And it led him to...well, the first thing it did was lead him to travel. He looked at the countryside for the music of the farmers and the people who lived in small towns, and their music. Well, you could say he discovered the music that was popular in those areas. He travelled to a significant portion of Eastern Europe actually. He wandered in the countryside and listened to the music heard in small towns and in all sorts of celebrations. He attended weddings, dances and religious ceremonies, where he heard a very different sort of music from the Romantic stuff being played in the concert halls in the cities. The music he heard is what we would consider folk music. But he didn't have those same songs played in the concert halls immediately. At first he went around to document the folk music. He really wanted to make sure the folk songs were written down before they disappeared. In fact, Bartók didn't start out the trip thinking of himself as a composer. He studied the traditional music of the region. But it turns out that what would later have a notable influence on European music on the whole was the way Bartók used elements he heard in folk songs in his own compositions. He adopted a number of elements from what he heard, like unusual rhythms. When Bartók had his new pieces performed, their folk music roots made them instantly popular. It happened to be a time of strong nationalism in Austria-Hungary, so his compositions came at just the fight time. He became very successful there. Particularly, when Bartók's ballet The Wooden Prince opened, there was great excitement for music that included musical elements from local folk songs, music that reflected the region's musical traditions. However, as popular as Bartók was in his homeland, he did not get much international recognition during his lifetime. What does the professor imply about romantic music in Austria-Hungary in the early 1900s? 本录音第第一小题和第三小题选项中重复出现的Bartók's (works/music)，以及popular，concert-hall music，local culture和Romantic elements表明，录音可能与巴托克的音乐作品有关，可能涉及他的音乐与其他音乐的关系以及这种音乐是否流行。选项均为描述it的句子，其中的not as popular, motivated Bartók to, became popular和appearance表明，本题可能考查it当时的发展情况或对某人的影响。录音中提到，20世纪早期奥匈帝国最受欢迎的是专注于浪漫主义风格的(worked in the Romantic style)作曲家，但巴托克是一个音乐团体的成员，他们想改变这种情况。由此可推知，浪漫主义音乐的存在促使巴托克想听到其他类型的音乐，故答案为C。