I can go something like this and we would call that a rhythm superimposing longs and shorts different patterns, patterns that oftentimes repeat.

我可以,像这样,而我们称这个为节奏,对长短不同经常重复的不同部分的整合

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And then he goes back to hell and then back up to heaven -goes back and forth between these two rhythmically very different concepts.

然后它回到了地狱,接着又升到了天堂,在这两种节奏非常不同的概念之间,来回往复

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It's a rhythm with a couple of different patterns.

这是个有几种不同形式的节奏

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Here's a group of sounds, different pitches and actually three different pitches in there, as opposed to just one pitch--one pitch, three pitches or three or four pitches, moving in different ways, kind of independent rhythmic chords, so that's the difference between monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic texture.

这是一组音,不同的音高,事实上三个不同的音高,相对于一个音高,一个音高,三个音高或四个音高,以不同方式运动,像有独立节奏的和弦,这就是单音,主音和复音织体的区别

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