In the township of Soweto, music producer Richard Hlungwani redefined traditional Shangaan music by making the beat much faster.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

Now let's talk for a moment about the idea of pulse in music and the beat in the music and rhythms in music.

接下来我们花点时间,说一下音乐的律动这个概念,还有音乐的拍,和音乐的节奏

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The beat's very important in music and generally speaking, in music, we divide the beat.

节拍很重要,通常来讲,在音乐中,我们把节拍进行了划分

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What do we call the passage of music in which the beat slows down?

对于曲子中节拍慢下来的部分,我们怎么来描述它

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Well, in music the most basic symbol for the beat is the quarter note.

音乐中表示拍的最基本符号是四分音符

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You're going to hear the violins play a running scale, If our beat is this, what note values are in the music of the violinists at this particular moment?

大家待会要听段小提琴演奏连续音阶,如果我们这样打拍子,在这个特定的时间点,这段音乐中小提琴手演奏的时值是什么

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The brain perceives all of this complex information and it processes it and it extrapolates from it the beat, but again nobody in music-- except the bass drum player in a marching band-- nobody in music ever does anything except just play the beat.

我们的大脑感知了所有复杂的信息加工后,推算出了拍子,不过没有人,除了军乐队的低音鼓手,没有人在音乐里仅仅只是打鼓点

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We all know that there is this thing in music called "Beat" and to the extent that popular music is more interesting and that you-- everybody likes it and will go dance to it is because it's really foregrounding beat and rhythm in an important way that classical music does not.

我们都知道在音乐中有种概念称作,拍,这也就是为什么流行音乐,从某种意义上说会那么好听,大家都会喜欢,并且愿意随之起舞,就是因为它把拍和节奏,摆在显要位置,而古典音乐就不是这样

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