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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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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Well, with the first movement we said he's generally going and that kind of idea, but now it's and we'll explore this when we get to harmony, this idea of major and minor so we're going music and now and that's a change from the dark minor to the brighter major.

在第一乐章,我们说过它大体上,就像这样,但现在,我们讲到和弦时再来研究这个,大调和小调的概念,我们继续听音乐,还有这个,这就是小调到大调间的转变,由阴郁转向明亮

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