Occasionally, you do run into pop pieces, folk songs, in minor, but most of them are in major-- probably about eighty percent in major.

大家偶然也会碰到小调的流行音乐和民歌,但大多数还是大调,大概百分之八十是大调

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who can do things like pop their eyeballs out,

那些能让人大吃一惊的人，

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When you listen to pop music do you ever think about the form of the music?

当你听流行音乐时,你有没有想过音乐的曲式

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What do you think of pop art?

你对流行艺术有什么看法？

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Now for the rest of the session today, what I'd like to do is take examples from the realm of pop music and use them as paradigms for what happens in the world of classical music.

今天剩下的时间里，我想给大家看一些流行音乐领域的例子,然后和古典乐领域进行对比。

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We've talked about some of these already, having to do with the nature of the harmony-- that pop music tends to have simpler harmonies, and that those harmonies tend to be more repetitious, that they tend to have harmonies that have chords in root position.

我们以前说过，这个问题与和声的性质有关-,流行乐通常用较为简单的和声，流行乐通常用较为简单的和声，流行乐手也大多喜欢用原位和弦。

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What does pop music do for us that's very helpful?

就这点而言流行音乐对我们来说有什么用处呢？

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