Radio stations that had never played country and western music began to play Hank Williams' songs.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

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

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

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。

哥伦比亚大学的教程 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Country and western music would not be the same without a guitar.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

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

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Still others play country and western music.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

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

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

His music is a mix of American country and western, rock and the sounds of the Caribbean islands.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

He attended both a university and a special music college in this middle western city.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

This music is emotionally charged, full of political lyrics and represents another fusion of Iranian and Western identity.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

But since the St.John's curriculum aims to span almost all of Western culture, students study every branch of the liberal arts - including music.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

(OMMITED) Unlike western classical music competitions, where a panel of experts rates each performance, McGraw explains gamelan competitions in Bali rely mostly on audience reaction.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01