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

VOA: special.2009.09.02

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

Who is the composer of the piece that you're about to hear and what is its title or what's it called?

下面你们要听到的片段的作曲家是谁,曲名是什么

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

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

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

The composer-- Anybody know the composer of this?

曲作者,谁知道刚刚这段乐曲的作曲是谁

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

So who is the composer of that?

作者是谁

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

The great architect, the thinker is the composer and the performer, the violinist, gets this piece of-- gets this blueprint or black print in the case of musical notation and is expected simply to replicate the black print.

伟大的建筑师,构想者,是作曲家,而演奏者,比如小提琴手,拿到这张,拿到这张蓝图之后,对音乐记谱法来说该叫,黑图,他只是被要求简单地把黑图复制出来

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Now let's go on here to listen to some music of Rossini-- composer Gioachino Rossini-- coming after Mozart, and he likes chord progressions too, so we're going to listen to a passage of Rossini and see what he does by way of his chord selection.

我们继续，在莫扎特之后我们要听的音乐来自罗西尼-,作曲家焦阿基诺，罗西尼，他也很喜欢用和弦进行，我们来听一下罗西尼的片段，看看他是怎样选择和弦的。

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

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

"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

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

VOA: special.2009.12.20

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

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