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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That's the melody and we're going to sing beneath-- we're going to sing Beethoven's bass beneath Beethoven's melody.

这是这段音乐的旋律，我们接着要唱旋律下面的部分-,我们要唱贝多芬旋律下面的低音部分。

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Bach wrote a mass, Mozart wrote many masses, Beethoven wrote two important masses and so on.

巴赫写过一首弥撒曲,莫扎特写过很多,贝多芬写过两首重要的弥撒曲,等等

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Okay. That is Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven, and do you know the name of the piece?

好的,就是贝多芬,路德维希·凡·贝多芬,那么你知道这首曲子的名字吗

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Let's listen to the end of the polyphonic texture, then Beethoven, and we'll stop with this.

我们来听完这段复音织体,贝多芬,我们多说一点

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We have the difference between conjunct music with the and disjunct music and that perhaps adds to the unsettled quality of the beethoven Fifth Symphony.

我们发现存在着不同,当级进混合着跳进时,也许正是这样的处理突出渲染了,贝多芬第五交响曲中的不安氛围

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Seems very simple, but took Beethoven a long time to iron all this out and make this perfect melody, the prototypical melody in a way.

似乎很简单,但是花了贝多芬很长时间来琢磨,最后做出这段完美的旋律,这段典范旋律

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Whereas the--if I take the rhythm out of the Ninth Symphony really Beethoven there is just going up and down a scale so it's very conjunct.

无论哪里,如果我将第九交响曲的,节奏单挑出来,你就会发现贝多芬这里,仅仅是一个个升或降的音阶,这是级进的典型例子

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We're going to focus now on some passages where we can do it, and we're going to see how Beethoven is setting up some chord progressions here.

我们现在准备将注意力集中到我们可以找到的那些乐章上，来看看贝多芬如何进行和弦的。

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And let's go to a little bit more of Beethoven.

现在我们再来多听一点贝多芬。

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Okay. I can't read it but two minutes and fifty seconds, two minutes--this one's only two minutes, three minutes and twenty seconds, that kind of thing.They're short, whereas Beethoven,as mentioned,is much longer.

好，我读不出但是它唱2分50秒，两分钟，这首歌只有两分钟，3分20秒，基本都是这么长，它们都很短，但是我们刚才说的贝多芬就要长的多。

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And possibly the most conjunct of all melodies in the history of music was the melody that we looked at very briefly in the first gathering, and that is Beethoven's famous Ode to Joy.

大概在音乐史上,最为级进的旋律,是我们第一堂课上撇过一眼的,贝多芬的《欢乐颂》

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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 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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All right. So those of you that are raising your hand, and some aren't raising their hands but that's okay, those of you almost unanimously say that the Beethoven Fifth Symphony sounds somewhat ominous to us, somewhat fateful to us, and the Beethoven Ninth Symphony conversely has a different sort of feel to it.

你们其中的有些人举起了手,其他的没有举,其实都很好,你们当中的几乎一致认定,贝多芬第五交响乐,听起来是对宿命的激烈的抗争,然而贝多芬第九交响曲相反的,采用了另外的一种不同的方式

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We've got some chords set out and we're going to-- we've got some chords set out here and we're in the key of C at this point, and we're going to hear Beethoven go to a tonic chord, then a sub-dominant chord, then a tonic chord, then a dominant chord and so on.

我们看到有一些和弦-,而我们现在在C调的位置上，然后听贝多芬的主音和弦，然后是次属音和弦，然后是主音和弦，接着是属音和弦，如此往复。

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