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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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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