Okay, so we have-- there's a whole idea of octave duplication— sometimes six notes, sometimes five notes.

现在我们了解到,一整套的重复八度,有时是六音符,有时是五音符

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So that went on--If we heard the whole thing, it actually goes on for 32 notes as opposed to just four so motive versus longer theme.

我们继续探讨,如果听完这部分,这个主题接下来还有三十二个音符,与区区四个音符的动机相对,动机与篇幅更长的主题相对

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If I told you that a DNA sequence went 5' to 3' you could draw the whole thing referring back to these notes, right?

如果我告诉你一个DNA链从5'到3',是AGTG,你就可以,画出它的整个结构

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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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So it's a whole series-- when we listen to a single tone it's a whole series, and what Eva was doing there is playing out the notes in that series successively, and we'll keep banging on that.

它们是一系列的声音,我们听单频音,其实听到的是整个系列,伊娃刚才所做的就是,一个接一个奏响那个系列中的音符,关于这部分,我们会继续探讨

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