Writing Task 2 Present a written argument or case to an educated reader with no specialist knowledge of the following topic: There are many different types of music in the world today. Why do we need music? Is the traditional music of a country more important than the International music that is heard everywhere nowadays? You should write at least 250 words. Use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.

Music
, from
long
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a long
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time ago,
being
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is
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one
important aspect
in
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of
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this
life. There is
diversity
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the diversity
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of
the
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music
in the world that we recognize
at
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in
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this
era. The
melody
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that
made
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are made
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are useful for
performance
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performances
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like theater, cinema, or orchestra. Nowadays,
music
can’t be separated from our
life
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lives
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since we keep listening to
the
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music
in our daily
life
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lives
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.
Pedestrian
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Pedestrians
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in the street, workers at their jobs, customers at the coffee shop, all of them are listening to the
music
. The usage of
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music
become
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important for us because we need it. Workers who are listening to
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music
simply because they need
a
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music
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music
as a white noise that helps them to concentrate their mind
during
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while
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doing their duty. An insomniac needs
music
because
music
calms their mind and it makes
them
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easy to sleep. Cinema and
theater
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theatre
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also
need
music
to make it easier to build up the atmosphere and the emotions of the performance.
Music
itself
,
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sometimes has an identity as a culture and heritage themselves. The use of
the
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music
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musical
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tools that
different
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are different
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from
one
ethnic group is what
make
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makes
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it
has
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distinctive characteristics, and those
what
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are what
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we call
it
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as
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traditional
music
. Traditional
music
is often recognized as
a slow pace
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slow-paced
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tempo
music
.
On the contrary
, the
music
that has
fast
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a fast
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pace of the tempo
well-known
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is well-known
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as
a modern
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modern music
a piece of modern music
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music
. Modern
music
aimed
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aims
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to focus on self or group actualization and commonly can be enjoyed by
people
around the world. Collectively,
people
nowadays are listening to
the
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modern
music
more than traditional
music
. It indicates that modern
music
more
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is more
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loved than traditional
music
by young
people
generation.
The globalization
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takes
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plays
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a big part in spreading
the
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music
from
one
country to another, that what makes modern
music
can be
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accepted globally compared to traditional
music
.
This
is a good thing since we don’t have
limitation
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limitations
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for enjoying modern
music
. But at the same time, it’s the fact that modern
music
made
people
forgot
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forget
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the
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traditional
music
as the heritage of the culture. When
the
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traditional
music
is no longer become a
favorite
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favourite
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, it is feared that traditional
music
will disappear because no
one
can play or enjoy it.
However
, even
we
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if we
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like international
music
more, there must be a balance move to
study
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studying
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and
listen
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listening
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to
the
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traditional
music
, so we don’t forget its existence and the culture is not extinct.
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