Think about dimensions of painting or architecture perhaps but what are the two dimensions of music?

想想绘画或者建筑的维度,那么音乐的两个维度又是什么呢

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Let's talk about what the difference between pop and classical music is.

接下来我们讨论一下流行乐和古典音乐的差别。

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And what does this say about the tradition of Jewish music?

这个能说明犹太音乐传统的什么呢

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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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It gives a sense of what this music is all--really all about and since, as we were saying, so much classical music doesn't have a text with it we've got to have some markers in there to know what the composer is trying to communicate to us.

让我们了解这段音乐想表达什么，就像我说的，大部分古典音乐并没有文字注解，而我们需要一些标记,来告诉我们作曲家想用这段音乐告诉我们什么。

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