歌曲旋律是民族五声的羽调式，节奏自由舒缓，具有回环起伏的特点。

The music melody belongs to the Yu -note of the ancient Chinese five-tone. Its rhythm is extended and free, and has the characteristics of circle-round and rise-fall.

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目前，作为一种原理和技法，已经渗透到了具有五声性风格的现代音乐创作实践及理论研究中。

At present, as a principle and technique it has penetrated into the modern music composing practice and theory research, with the quality and style of pentatone.

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象大多数孩子一样，我开始也听并演奏摇滚乐，但是我很快开始厌倦五声音阶的声音。

Like most kids, I started out listening to and playing rock and roll. But I quickly tired of the pentatonic sound.

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And that's used in a lot of Far East cultures— the pentatonic scale, just a five-note scale there.

它大量用于远东的文化中,这种五声的音阶,五个音符的音阶

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So, it's a penta-- what we call a pentatonic scale.

因此,它是一个所谓的,五,我们称之为五声的音阶

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