Music gravitates around a home pitch and in the Beethoven Fifth symphony we still haven't gotten the home pitch.

音乐的音高一般会围绕着主音高浮动,在贝多芬的第五交响乐中　,我们还没发现这个主音高

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So that was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the beginning of it, a famous passage in the history of classical music.

这是贝多芬的第五交响曲,开始的一段,在古典音乐史上非常有名一段

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As I say in the textbook there, the beginning of the Beethoven Fifth is something like a musical punch in the nose.

正如我在课本里所说的,听到贝多芬的第五交响曲开始乐段,就像有人用音乐,在你鼻子上猛击了一拳

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We want to be more--a bit more sophisticated than that, if you will, and use other terms, so we'll talk generally about Beethoven's composition or Beethoven's piece or Beethoven's work or his master work or chef d'oeuvre or however fancy you want to get with it.

我们想用些更精确的词藻,用其他措辞表现,我们一般会说贝多芬的音乐创作,或贝多芬的乐章,贝多芬的乐曲,他的杰作,或名曲,或是任何你想到的花哨词汇称呼它

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So I'm going to tell you a lot about classical music in here: Mozart, Bach, Beethoven.

因此我会在这儿跟你们谈到,很多古典音乐的知识,Mozart,巴赫,贝多芬

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