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

VOA: special.2009.09.02

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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.24

The first, you can see on the board up there, is by another Russian composer, Modest Musorgsky.

首先,你可以看到那边的黑板上,是另一位俄罗斯作曲家,莫戴斯特·穆索尔斯基的作品

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

So the composer in the West is very important, more important than the composer in other cultures.

所以在西方,作曲家的地位是非常重要的,比其他文化中的作曲家更重要

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This song by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim first became famous in the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

We can kind of freeze dry this thing and store it and then bring it back to life more or less exactly as the composer had intended.

我们相当于把这件作品干燥冷藏起来,并能够还原作品,比较精确地吻合作曲家的原意

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.07.19

So again the process of notation allows the composer to loom larger.

所以再一次强调记谱法的作用,它让作曲家的地位更加突出

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.10.05

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

The work was first performed in Germany in two thousand to mark two hundred fifty years since the death of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

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

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

VOA: special.2010.10.01

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

The author notes that Alan Lomax apparently claimed composer credit on about eight hundred songs.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

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

"Every composer is different. I always get my notes at the piano, first and foremost.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

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

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

Another composer,Jerome Kern, once said of Irving Berlin: "He has no place in American music.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Mario Ritter tells us more. The Dallas Opera in Texas and four other opera companies hired American composer Jake Heggie to write the opera "Moby Dick."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

They include saxophonists Boney James and Dave Koz and pianist and composer Joe Sample.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

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

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Many performers who have recorded traditional material have listed themselves as the composer.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg was one of the people who praised George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

They are probably performed more often than any other serious American composer.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

In Helsinki, Finland she sang for the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

VOA: special.2009.01.25