"It's a cautionary tale, but in many respects it is quite ambiguous about where it stands on the science."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

So having said that about musical notation-- something about a cautionary tale about musical notation-- we should think about how it affects the way we compose music in the West and how we perform music in the West.

讲完记谱法的一些,足以为戒的故事之后,我们也该想一下,它是如何影响西方音乐的作曲方式的,以及如何影响西方音乐的演奏方式

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