But in the nineteen sixties, the expression rolling stone became famous in the world of rock-and-roll music.

VOA: special.2010.10.17

So because so much popular music and particularly rock music has those chords in root position we can track them more readily.

因为很多流行音乐尤其是摇滚乐会在原位上添加这样的和弦,这样听起来会比较悦耳。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Well,here's one other that you might not have thought of, and that is that most of the chords in rock music in particular tend to be root-position chords, and for that reason they're easier to hear.

还有另外一点也许大家还没有想到，那就是摇滚乐的主要和弦尤其倾向于变成根和弦，因此他们听起来也更加容易。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Now,just two do. That's because - while Spanish is still the language in many homes - the children of immigrants from Cuba and other Latin nations speak English in school and on the street, wear American clothes and prefer upbeat Anglo rock music to their parents' dreamy, old Spanish ballads.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19