So, it's very well designed such that they've minimized any of these destructive interference dead sounds. So, it's nice, on a student budget you can go and get the worst seat in the house and you can hear just as well as they can hear up front, even if you can't actually see what's going on.

世界上最好的两三个音乐厅之一,它的设计十分精巧，把任何相干相消,都见到了最低，所以这点对于你们,用学生预算买到一个最差的位置的人,来说是很好的，你们可以听得,像前排一样清楚，虽然你们,可能看不见台上发生了什么。

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And every musical culture around the world-- and I've talked with ethnomusicologists about this particular point-- every musical culture around the world, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Indian, African whatever, they all use this phenomenon of octave duplication in their music-- octave duplication in the music.

世界各地的每一种音乐文化,我曾经和一些民族音乐学家谈论过这一点,世界各地的每一种音乐文化,中国的,日本的,印尼的,印度的,或是非洲的,大家都有这种现象,即在自己的音乐里运用,这种重复八度

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So, what we're dealing here with is a situation where the ancient Greeks were very much into mathematics as a way of explaining the world and explaining music in particular And they thought these ratios were primary.

那么,我们现在要潜心琢磨,古希腊人热衷于,用数学来解释世界,尤其是音乐的这种情形,他们认为这些比例才是基础

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