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

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。

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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

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He shares the nomination with the movie's music composer,Thomas Newman.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

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

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And some of the composers have these jazzy licks, and there's one composer that has very atmospheric avant garde sound.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

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。

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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

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

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The Boston Pops and its conductor for 50 years,Arthur Fiedler, had a lot to do with its popularity, according to John Williams, the Hollywood composer who followed in Fiedler's footsteps.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

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。

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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

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