Someone asked me, "Well,why are some notes consonant and why are other notes dissonant?"

有人问我，那么为什么有些音符是和音而有些不协调呢“

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And before we do it, I should add one other thing: how, then, do we get these other notes up here, we get these other notes up here?

在此之前,我们先来看看这个,我们如何安排其它这些音符,放在这里吗

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The manuscripts we find from this period are full of marginal notes where the scholars are chiding each other and saying, "No, no, no. It can't be that way."

我们找到了有大量旁注的手稿,学者们相互争论，互不服气“

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While other species," he notes, "may have voice, may have sounds and be able to distinguish pleasure and pain, Logos speech"--logos is his word for it.

他注明，“虽然其它动物也许能发声,也许有音调能区分出愉悦与痛苦，“辩论能力“或他所用的词汇。

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You're doing eighth notes and the rest of us are doing-- other people are doing quarter notes. Okay.

你是用八分音符,我们剩下的人,即其他人是用四分音符,没事的

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They play with these partials on each of these notes, but this is just one sound with all of these other things mixed in to the medley that produces the quality or timbre of a particular instrument.

它们改变音符中的分音的强度,不过这只是一个声音,要算上其它所有分音的集合,才能构成一个特定乐器的音色

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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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We're working up farther and farther in these partials and we've got some of these notes right next to each other and they want to move to the stable notes so we're going to be hearing a lot of a note right above the tonic wanting to pull down to that tonic note.

我们进一步介绍了这些泛音,我们看到这些音符,彼此贴近,它们想要变成稳定的基音,所以,我们会听很多,高于基音的音符,想下行靠近这些基音

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