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。

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I actually hate this question because I have so many favorite artists.

我其实不喜欢这个问题，因为我喜欢很多音乐艺人。

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I like Newlands because he had a musical flair about him.

我喜欢纽兰兹,因为他十分有音乐天赋。

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So Musorgsky knew this law of acoustics because he was a professional musician and was playing off of it to create this rather unusual and remarkable musical sound-scape here.

穆索尔斯基明白这个声学规律,因为他是位专业的音乐家,他通过制造这非凡卓越的音乐场景,表达了这个规律

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Yeah, I like to look at films in different ways, because you can look at one film and explore it like the music. For example, in Film Music we looked at Psycho which I see on the syllabus, and we talked about the music in that film.

是的，我喜欢从不同的角度研究电影，因为你可以看一部电影,从音乐的角度研究它，例如，我看到教学大纲上有《精神病患者》,在电影音乐课上我们看了这部电影，并讨论了电影中的配乐。

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Somebody's up there going and it's actually the bass so we'll be wanting to zero in on the bass in a big way in music because that's oftentimes giving us much more information than the melody.

有些人在那唱,事实上那是低音,所以我们在音乐中,主要将注意力集中到低音上,因为大多数情况下,相比旋律而言,低音给我们的信息更多

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And it perhaps allows the opportunity for more personal interpretation, "exactly what does this music mean," more personal interpretation, because we're not tied to a text; we're not linked in to a particular text that tells us what it's about.

这也使个人阐释拥有了机会，这段音乐到底是什么意思“,更多的个人解释，因为我们不受文字的控制，我们不受限于描述某一含义的文字。

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So let's listen to a track here, a sax solo and I am going to try to keep-- make some sense out of this-- because it gets more and more complex-- by following the electric bass underneath so let's listen to an old tape.

那么我们听一下这段音轨,一段萨克斯独奏,我会尽量从中,理出一些头绪,因为我们的音乐片段会越来越复杂,大家可以跟着底下电贝斯的节奏,好的,我们来一下老磁带

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Time. Okay, pitch and time and pitch and duration, excellent, so those are the two dimensions of music and well, indeed we could even call them the axes of music because we tend to think of pitch on a vertical axis.

时间,音高和时间,或者是音高和时值,非常好,它们是音乐的两个维度,其实我们可以称呼它们为音乐的两轴,因为我们趋向于将音高放在竖轴上来考虑

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We all know that there is this thing in music called "Beat" and to the extent that popular music is more interesting and that you-- everybody likes it and will go dance to it is because it's really foregrounding beat and rhythm in an important way that classical music does not.

我们都知道在音乐中有种概念称作,拍,这也就是为什么流行音乐,从某种意义上说会那么好听,大家都会喜欢,并且愿意随之起舞,就是因为它把拍和节奏,摆在显要位置,而古典音乐就不是这样

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