It's just a long, long text that's set to music but that text is drawn from "Apocalypse, " The images of "Apocalypse."

它改编自一段很长的文字,但文本来自《启示录》,对《启示录》的想像

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You've got to have a text and so we don't have--in eighty percent of classical music-- we don't have lyrics; we don't have a text.

你得有文字,而百分之八十的古典乐中却没有,没有歌词,没有文字

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Over the weekend, you were assigned material from chapter one of the text and it dealt really with three famous beginnings of pieces of classical music.

上周末,布置你们阅读的内容,出自课本第一章,那些内容是关于,三首著名古典曲目的开始部分

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We've got text in pop music that tells us what this music means.

流行音乐能用文字告诉我们它的意义。

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So Mozart may have had this image in mind of the damned and the left, but he sure was able to set it--this text-- through music by using a couple of devices.

因此莫扎特脑海中可能记住了,左侧受诅咒的人的画面,但他肯定通过若干乐曲技巧,用音乐表现出了文本内容

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And we talked about this before--that classical music, probably eighty-five percent of it, does not involve a text, and that's a whole different ballgame because then you have to communicate meaning in a completely different sort of way.

我们之前也说过，古典音乐，大约百分之八十五，都没有歌词，所以这就让这两者产生了本质的区别,听众必须用完全不同的方法理解音乐的内涵。

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And it perhaps allows the opportunity for more personal interpretation, "exactly what does this music mean," more personal interpretation, because we're not tied to a text; we're not linked in to a particular text that tells us what it's about.

这也使个人阐释拥有了机会，这段音乐到底是什么意思“,更多的个人解释，因为我们不受文字的控制，我们不受限于描述某一含义的文字。

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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。

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