"What if this was someone coming to the music for the very first time?

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Today we're going to move away from the first dimension of music that we've been looking at, which is duration, or time, and begin to work with the second, which is pitch, and melody.

今天我们要结束对音乐的第一个维度的学习,即时值,或者说拍子,并开始讨论音乐的第二维度,即音高与旋律

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

This is the first time there has been a separate category for Americana music.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

and went on to sell more than 100,000 copies of the song at a time when there were only about That song is regarded as the first-ever country music hit, and Loudon Wainwright performs it under the title "The Deal" on his Grammy-nominated CD.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24