And musical notation is relied on more in Western music than any other musical civilization around the world.

而音乐记谱法在西方音乐中更受倚重,比在全世界其它音乐文明中地位更高

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to be familiar with the major works and thinkers and literature, music, and art of, uh, Western history.

了解西方历史上主要著作、思想家、文学、音乐和艺术。

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We said before that in Western music we have musical notation.

我们以前说过,在西方的音乐里有音乐记谱法

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If you look back over it, there was no major or minor in western music up until about sixteenth century, and then people started writing these things called madrigals, that were tied to texts.

如果回顾下历史,大家会发现直到十六世纪,西方世界才出现大调和小调,那时人们开始写一种叫做牧歌的曲子,并配上歌词

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