So Mozart may have had this image in mind of the damned and the left, but he sure was able to set it--this text-- through music by using a couple of devices.

因此莫扎特脑海中可能记住了,左侧受诅咒的人的画面,但他肯定通过若干乐曲技巧,用音乐表现出了文本内容

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So those are the three pieces and the issues there had to do with musical genre that we're going to talk a little bit more about in a moment, and the instruments.

就是这三首乐曲,与它们的音乐风格相关的知识,我们接下来会进一步探讨,还有关于乐器的知识

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What's happening and interests me acoustically, and again we'll come back to it, is that we're getting up toward here, and notice how these pitches in terms of the ratio frequencies are getting very close together.

这段乐曲从声学的角度上让我很感兴趣,我们再看看它,音乐升高到这里,然后我们注意到这些音高,是如何根据频率比最后汇合在一起的

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And we pointed out, however,that one individual has a--the music that has all of these parts on it--and that, of course,is the conductor who has the full conducting score-- the full score--in front of him or her.

我们可以指出，这样的个体，音乐将所有的零碎的部分聚合在了一起，而这样，指挥家拥有整个乐曲的谱子-,就在他或她的面前。

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So in this 40-minute interval we've gone sort of through an emotional musical journey here from despair, despondency, uncertainty, to whatever- to personal triumph, and in a way that mirrors some of the things that were going on in Beethoven's life.

在这四十分钟的乐曲里,我们走完了一趟情感丰富的音乐旅程,从消沉沮丧,到半信半疑,再到个人胜利,其实在某种意义上也反映了事实,贝多芬的人生,也将经历相似的历程

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Music gets us to do particular kinds of things, gets us to feel particular kinds of ways, and I think these two pieces by the same composer get-- cause--us to feel very, very different, cause a different mood, a different psychological state, to come over us.

音乐赋予我们别样的行为方式,让我们通过别样的途径来感受,还有我觉得这两首来自同一个作者的乐曲,给予我们截然不同的感受,两种截然不同的情绪,两种截然不同的精神状态,笼罩着我们

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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 what we want to do now is to begin to think about counting measures, and we're going to do this by staying with this piece of Louis Armstrong here, and we need to be able to count measures so that we can figure out the syntax of music.

现在我们想做的,是大家开始想一下怎么数小节,我们通过,路易斯·阿姆斯特朗的这段乐曲,来做这个活动,我们需要能够数好小节才能弄清楚,音乐的句法

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