Now just working with the four-note motive here-- A strange little dissonant chord there resolving to consonance.

现在四音符的动机出现,这有一段有点不和谐的和弦,解构成和谐音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So that's the principle of this idea of dissonance resolving to consonance.

这就是将不和谐音,解构为和谐音的原理的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

If you allow a little bit of spacing, a little more space between your frequencies, they're a little bit farther apart, then you can move from closeness plays to spacing and you get the consonance.

如果让频率间有点间隔,给频率间多一点空间,让它们彼此远离一些,从密集的音高,转向有间距的音程,就能得到和谐音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Here is a consonance.

这是个和谐音

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He's going to close it back down here with death and he's going to close it back down using a process that we frequently encounter in music, and that is this idea of dissonance resolving to consonance.

他要描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,他要用一种我们常在音乐中邂逅的方式,描述生命从繁华喧嚣中走向寂灭,这就是使不和谐音解构为和音,这个理念

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

They're irrational numbers and these irrational numbers like to move to rational numbers; they like to move to consonances; they like to move to intervals that are based on things such as two to one and three to two or maybe four to three.

它们是无理数,而这些无理数想要变为有理数,它们想变成和谐音,就要根据一些比率改变音程,比如二比一,三比二,或四比三的比率

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选