Now let's talk for a moment about the idea of pulse in music and the beat in the music and rhythms in music.

接下来我们花点时间,说一下音乐的律动这个概念,还有音乐的拍,和音乐的节奏

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Well, in music the most basic symbol for the beat is the quarter note.

音乐中表示拍的最基本符号是四分音符

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The downbeat in the music comes with the down motion of the hand.

音乐的重拍,合着手势,下摆

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So in our course we are only going to have two types of meter, These organizations taking the beat and organizing it into groups, is called superimposing meter on the music.

所以我们的课程中,只会出现两种拍子,这些组织方式将拍编组,在音乐中称为拍子的叠加

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Well, there's a little bit of music before the downbeat.

在重拍前有一小段音乐

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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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