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VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Most of our popular music, folk songs and things like that, are written in duple meter and in a major key.

大多数的流行音乐,民歌,以及类似的音乐,是写在二拍子和大调上面

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I've put it in the key-- what's called the bass clef here-- and it's in a major key.

我已经标好了调性,这个叫低音谱号,它采用的是大调

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Now the modulation--change of key from major to back to minor as the cortege will start up again and then we-- A nice clarinet sound there and here comes our cortege with the bass.

现在变调了,从大调,变回小调,送葬行列再次启动,然后我们听到了优美的单簧管,送葬行列伴随着低音来了

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And they got in this habit of, every time they had a bright, happy text, they'd set this in one kind of mode or key-- a major mode--and every time they had a sad one, they'd set it in minor.

于是人们养成了这样的习惯,每当人们书写欢乐,愉悦的歌词时,他们就设定一个调式或调性,即大调,每当人们书写忧伤的歌词时,他们就定为小调

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