Performers of bebop left the traditional musical melody and played a song freely, with the music and rhythm that was felt at the time.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

I'll play a melody without vibrato and with vibrato so you can see the difference.

我来演奏一段旋律,分有揉弦和没有揉弦两种表现,这样你们就能听出区别

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Because the melody changes and not all harmonies are concordant with every note.

由于旋律在不停变化而且不是所有的和弦都和每个音符一致。

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When it comes to choosing songs, Gambarini's first priority is makinga personal connection with the lyrics and melody.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Today we're going to move away from the first dimension of music that we've been looking at, which is duration, or time, and begin to work with the second, which is pitch, and melody.

今天我们要结束对音乐的第一个维度的学习,即时值,或者说拍子,并开始讨论音乐的第二维度,即音高与旋律

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Now, Ludwig van Beethoven was in his fifties when he was working on his last symphony-- what would prove to be his last symphony-- his Ninth Symphony, and he'd been tinkering with this particular melody all the way back to probably 1803, so it's about twenty years or so.

路德维希·凡·贝多芬在五十多岁时,创作了他最后一首交响乐,后来成为他最后的交响曲,就是他的第九交响曲,他一直在锤炼这段旋律,也许要追溯到一八零三年,所以大概经历了二十个年头

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