She says this is a special time to be a composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

It's a puzzle, but it has for its delight a kind of solitary quality, both of the composer and of the solver of the chess problem.

它是一个谜语，却具有某种令人愉快的自我的特性，不论是设题的人还是解题的人都能感知到。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A motive is just a little cell, a germ, out of which the composer will build other musical material.

动机只是个微小的细胞,一个胚芽,基于它 作曲家会创造新的音乐素材

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

His dreams of becoming a composer began when he was young.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Maurice Ravel was a French composer writing in the early twentieth century.

莫里斯·拉威尔是法国作曲家,是二十世纪早期的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He attended college classes to learn to become a composer.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.

说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He was a composer,conductor, pianist and teacher.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

That's a one-movement work in which the composer tries to tell a story or play out an historic event or, in the case of the Strauss, to give us the beginning of the contents of a philosophical novel through music.

交响诗是类单乐章作品,作曲家试图从中讲述一个故事,或是再现一个历史事件,而施特劳斯,通过音乐,为我们讲述了一部哲学小说开头的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So says Frank Oteri,himself a composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Okay. Debussy, a French composer writing at the end of the nineteenth century in the Impressionist style, and the piece is called Moonlight-- Clair de Lune--but again you may- you'll come out of this course-- four months from now you'll know all of this stuff.

好的,德彪西,是一位法国作曲家,创作于,十九世纪末期,采用印象主义的手法,还有就是它叫做月光,月光,再说一遍,当你完成这个课程后,也就是四个月后,你会掌握到这方面所有的知识

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In addition to touring and recording with his quartet, he's worked as a composer or arranger on the Clint Eastwood films "Mystic River."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

It gives a sense of what this music is all--really all about and since, as we were saying, so much classical music doesn't have a text with it we've got to have some markers in there to know what the composer is trying to communicate to us.

让我们了解这段音乐想表达什么，就像我说的，大部分古典音乐并没有文字注解，而我们需要一些标记,来告诉我们作曲家想用这段音乐告诉我们什么。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.

我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

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

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It was very popular. The composer earned a good living from the sales of the sheet music.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Okay.So that's an example of a classical composer, admittedly in a pretty straightforward situation, using the same three-chord chord progressions we find in the Beach Boys.

好，以上我们举了一个古典作曲家的例子，诚然这个选段的结构比较简单，直接了当，它所用的包含三个和弦的和弦进程与我们在Beach，Boys音乐中分析的相同。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Years later, he admitted that he had no idea that George Gershwin was such a successful composer.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Let's listen to an erhu play a melody by a traditional Chinese composer— we call him in English "Abbing" and you can read about him there in your textbook.

让我们听听一段二胡旋律吧,它由一位中国早年的作曲家创作,英语中我们称呼他Abbing,当然,课本上有他相关的信息

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

We're playing John Williams, who is a famous composer who did 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and 'Superman,' in addition to the classical music."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill will play a work written by composer John Williams for the event.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer,producer and bandleader who has received much critical praise.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

"Something happened post-World War Two where a divide occurred between the audience and the composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

The book is based on a children's opera by the Jewish Czech composer Hans Krasa.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

In nineteen eighty-three she became the first female composer to win a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

For a classically trained composer, Jennifer Higdon's musical influences might surprise you.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Adam Schoenberg is a young composer adding to this rich variety.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Shel Silverstein did. He was a poet,writer,artist, musician and composer.

VOA: special.2010.06.04