Now just working with the four-note motive here-- A strange little dissonant chord there resolving to consonance.

现在四音符的动机出现,这有一段有点不和谐的和弦,解构成和谐音

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You can see them in the sopranos and altos up there and they just sit there on that pitch--a long note: one, two, three, four.

你可以在高音与中音区看到他们,而且他们一直留在那个音高上,一个长音符,一,二,三,四

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He writes down this four- to five-minute composition note for note in just one sitting.

他便一口气,逐个音符地,写下了这段四到五分钟的作品

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As we come back in to this, I think we've got a situation where the piano keeps playing the four-note motive, the part like he was building it up for tension.

回到这里,我想情况是这样的,钢琴一直弹奏着四音节的动机,这个部分像是钢琴在制造紧张气氛

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