Let's listen to Luciano Pavarotti sing a leading tone, and as by coincidence, it happens to be the one-year anniversary of Pavarotti's death this week.

让我们听一下,卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂演唱的导音,巧合的是,这周恰好是,帕瓦罗蒂逝世一周年

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Then there's one other that we have to know about, it's called the leading tone.

还有一个音符我们需要了解,我们称之为导音

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Okay, and you can hear him sort of-- he didn't go-- You could hear him slide that leading tone up into the tonic in that case.

你可以听到,他并没有,大家可以听出,他是从导音,滑到了主音

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Okay. So this is a leading tone going in to that particular note.

好吧,这是一个引出那个特定音符的导音

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Okay, so we've got across the idea of tonics and leading tones.

好了,我们了解了主音和导音的概念

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They love to kind of luxuriate in the opportunity to show off their voice on a leading tone, build up expectation, make you wait even more for that tonic.

他们总是喜欢借机,在导音部分卖弄下自己的歌喉,以增加听众的期望,让大家更渴望听到主音

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The tempo here is very slow and he slows it down even more and then it just sits out there, this huge wonderful voice that he had, on the leading tone.

速度非常缓慢,经他处理后就更慢了,余音缭绕,他在导音上展现了洪亮,精妙的歌喉

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So, here's Luciano Pavarotti singing a leading tone.

卢西亚诺·帕瓦罗蒂演唱的导音

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The leading tone is always the seventh degree.

导音总是第七级音

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