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我们唱过主音吗，主音是什么？

Did we do tonics? Do we know what a tonic is?

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我们必须终止在主音上

We've got to end on the tonic.

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Even though we are continuing to hear sound, harmonically, psychologically, we know we're finished when he hits that particular tonic.

尽管我们依然能听到声音，有共鸣，感到震撼，但是在他演奏到这个主音的时候，我们知道结束了。

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Music gravitates around a home pitch and in the Beethoven Fifth symphony we still haven't gotten the home pitch.

音乐的音高一般会围绕着主音高浮动,在贝多芬的第五交响乐中　,我们还没发现这个主音高

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We simplify it by saying this: that there are three fundamental textures: monophonic texture, homophonic texture, and polyphonic texture.

简而言之,有三种基本织体,单音织体,主音织体和复音织体

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