All pieces, classical or pop, one way or the other, end on the tonic.

所有乐曲,无论是古典或流行,无论用什么办法,都终止在主音上

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And we will then get over to here, where he's sitting on the tonic chord, and we want to see how long he's going to hold this tonic chord. Okay?

接着再到这里来，他停在了主音和弦上，然后我们想看看他会在主音和弦上保持多久，好吧？

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He just sat there on the tonic forever.

他不过是一直在主音上没动过。

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We've got to end on the tonic.

我们必须终止在主音上

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We've got some chords set out and we're going to-- we've got some chords set out here and we're in the key of C at this point, and we're going to hear Beethoven go to a tonic chord, then a sub-dominant chord, then a tonic chord, then a dominant chord and so on.

我们看到有一些和弦-,而我们现在在C调的位置上，然后听贝多芬的主音和弦，然后是次属音和弦，然后是主音和弦，接着是属音和弦，如此往复。

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