We're going to exemplify homophonic texture here and we want you to sing the melody and we'll try to do the parts underneath of it.

现在我们来演示主音织体,我们希望你唱旋律,而我们大家来唱下面的声部

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You can get away--you can sue people for stealing melody.

但是这不成立，你可以起诉别人抄袭你的旋律。

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And this point-- that it is culture rather than acoustics-- was brought home to me once in a discussion with a student here at Yale who said to me, "Yeah, but over there at the Slifka Center, we Jews have lots of happy melodies and they are all in minor--what you would call minor."

还有一点,大小调是文化差异,而非声学,有个耶鲁的学生上我家里去讨论,他对我说,哈,就在这个斯利夫卡中心,我们犹太人有很多快乐的旋律,都是小调,就是你说的那种小调

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