And this whole note obviously can be subdivided into two half notes and each of the half notes into two quarter notes each of these quarter notes into two eighth notes, and so on.

这个全音符,很明显,可以再分为两个半音符,每个半音符又可以再细分为两个四分之一音符,每个四分之一音符可以再分为两个八分之一音符,等等

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Now I didn't use--no hands-- that was just the notes that are naturally on the twelve and a half-foot length of vibrating air.

我没有用手控制,都是十二个半英尺高的震动空气柱,自然产生的音符

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How can we get a half note that actually equals now three quarter notes?

我们怎么加上一个二分音符,从而正好代表了三个四分音符呢

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It adds fifty percent or a half to that and that means instead of two quarter notes that we now have three and we can do the same thing to any one of these other values here and that's how we get our triple relationships.

加上了百分之五十或者说一半的原音符值,这意味着除了有两个四分音符,我们现在有三个了,我们也可以在其他这些音符值后加上附点,这就是我们如何做到三倍形式的安排的

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