with a piece of popular music you get a single ethos, a single feeling,a single mood associated with the piece, and the piece will tend to be shorter.

在流行乐里，一首歌只表达一个中心思想，一种感觉，一种情绪，所以这首作品也就会短小一些。

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Hopelessly out of touch with popular culture and nobody knows this better than I and to prove this I have chosen a piece because there's a little story with it.

貌似我和流行文化没有一丁点接轨的,这我比谁都清楚,可以为我证明这点,是一个小故事

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选