That's what they do. It's consonant, it's in major, it's high and, most important, the rhythm is very uncomplicated.

这就表现他们的音乐,它是协和的,是大调,是高音,并且最重要的一点,这节奏很是简单

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Whereas the--if I take the rhythm out of the Ninth Symphony really Beethoven there is just going up and down a scale so it's very conjunct.

无论哪里,如果我将第九交响曲的,节奏单挑出来,你就会发现贝多芬这里,仅仅是一个个升或降的音阶,这是级进的典型例子

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Okay? There is no pitch to it. It is just rhythm.

这里没有音高,只有旋律

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Please choose a rhythm for excerpt one you can choose rhythm A which is or you could choose rhythm B So I'm about to play a piece. It's by Chopin.

请选一个和你听到的相符的节奏,你可以选节奏甲,也可以选节奏乙,我现在要弹一段,肖邦的曲子

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We all know that there is this thing in music called "Beat" and to the extent that popular music is more interesting and that you-- everybody likes it and will go dance to it is because it's really foregrounding beat and rhythm in an important way that classical music does not.

我们都知道在音乐中有种概念称作,拍,这也就是为什么流行音乐,从某种意义上说会那么好听,大家都会喜欢,并且愿意随之起舞,就是因为它把拍和节奏,摆在显要位置,而古典音乐就不是这样

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