So musical notation: the first grid pattern in Western culture-- but it does lock us in in interesting ways that we may-- you perhaps have never considered-- compared to how music is made in other cultures.

因此音乐记谱法,是西方文化中最早的网格图示,但这也限制了我们以某种有趣的方式,你们也许从来没有想过的方式创作,相对其他文化中音乐创作的过程而言

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I can get this to show us how far up we are supposed to go, by placing it on some kind of grid here," and this is this--as I said before, the beginning of the first graph in the history of the West.

我可以通过将它放置在这样的网格中,来表明我们的声音应该有多高,而这就是,正如我以前所说,西方历史上最早的图示法

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