It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

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Most of our popular music, folk songs and things like that, are written in duple meter and in a major key.

大多数的流行音乐,民歌,以及类似的音乐,是写在二拍子和大调上面

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Occasionally, you do run into pop pieces, folk songs, in minor, but most of them are in major-- probably about eighty percent in major.

大家偶然也会碰到小调的流行音乐和民歌,但大多数还是大调,大概百分之八十是大调

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We've talked about some of these already, having to do with the nature of the harmony-- that pop music tends to have simpler harmonies, and that those harmonies tend to be more repetitious, that they tend to have harmonies that have chords in root position.

我们以前说过，这个问题与和声的性质有关-,流行乐通常用较为简单的和声，流行乐通常用较为简单的和声，流行乐手也大多喜欢用原位和弦。

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