Now let's talk for a moment about the idea of pulse in music and the beat in the music and rhythms in music.

接下来我们花点时间,说一下音乐的律动这个概念,还有音乐的拍,和音乐的节奏

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You see a bleep going across the screen to indicate that they've got their finger on the pulse of what's happening, or you see it in TV shows like ER.

你们看到一个亮点在屏幕上来回跳动,来显示病人脉搏的,跳动情况,就像在急诊室的故事,这类电视中看到的那样

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It's very languid in terms of the pulse here.

相比于这种脉动它很懒散

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This is the pulse of music and music theorists ever since the late fifteenth century from music theory Francinus Gafurius on we could go all the way back then have said that the pulse in music is basically at the same tempo as the human pulse which comes out to be about oh, we'll say seventy-two beats if you will, pulses, per minute.

这是音乐的脉搏,从十五世纪晚期到现在的音乐理论家们,像弗朗西斯·加福瑞,我们回到那个年代,那时就曾说过,音乐的律动,和人类的脉搏节奏基本一致,就是说相当于,我们说如果是你的脉搏的话,每分钟七十二下左右

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