Meter is--it's a scheme for organizing verse, for organizing lines of verse.

抑扬格是安排韵文的一种体系，是为了安排每一行诗的韵文。

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Yeah,it's regular, and with-- each chord was holding for two beats there in duple meter.

对，这是规则变化，每个和弦都维持两拍，这里一小节两拍。

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So we're going to listen to a track out of John Kander's Chicago here, and the question that's at- in play at the moment is what's the meter of this cut from chicago?

我们先听一下约翰·肯德尔的作品芝加哥,中的一小段,边听边想一个问题,这个片段的节拍是怎样的,这个摘自芝加哥的片段

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You'd be hard pressed to identify what the meter of that is so that's one reason, and of course what--where am I going with the next important point about what's happening in this music?

你会很难确定其中的节拍,这也是原因之一,当然这也是我将要讲解的下个关键点,关于在这类音乐中的情形

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This would be? Well let's think through this in one additional way and that is--notice that in duple meter we have a strong beat, right "Strong, weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, strong weak" in that sense or if we have triple it would be "Strong, weak, weak, strong, weak, weak."

是什么呢,我们用另一种方式来想,这个,你们知道二拍子,有很强的鼓点,对吧,强,弱,强,弱,强,弱,强,弱,那在这种情况下如果我们拿一段三拍子,那就会是,强,弱,弱,强,弱,弱

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