It works its magic, again, through purely instrumental means, so we can't really call those songs, and this puzzled me.

纯器乐的演奏方式,容我重申,能产生神奇的效果,所以我们其实不能把器乐称为歌曲,这让我很困惑

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In that fashion, one--It's playing eighth notes, one-and, two-and; it's subdividing the beat whereas the syncopation -it's there, and so on.

就是这种方式,一,它演奏八分音符,一大,二大,有切分音的地方,节拍被细分了,就像这样

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And then finally we could add that--the idea that maybe with a lot of electronic basses and things like that that they play--they tend to play the bass just louder.

然后最后我们可以添加这个，一种很多电贝斯和其他同类乐器演奏的方式,倾向于将低音演奏得响亮一些。

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So having said that about musical notation-- something about a cautionary tale about musical notation-- we should think about how it affects the way we compose music in the West and how we perform music in the West.

讲完记谱法的一些,足以为戒的故事之后,我们也该想一下,它是如何影响西方音乐的作曲方式的,以及如何影响西方音乐的演奏方式

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