The growing popularity of football or soccer known as here in the U.S., is on display every week on this pitch.

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So what I'd like to do now is focus on a piece that emphasizes--foregrounds-- just the first axis, pitch.

那么现在我要做的是集中精力于一首乐曲,它所强调的,突出的,只是这第一维,音高

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Well it'll be interesting to see if you swing at the first pitch and decide to take this class on.

我很希望大家能,上了试听课后,继续选修这门课

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Let's listen to John Kander sit on one pitch level and then suddenly raise the whole thing up.

我们听到约翰·肯德尔选择了一个音高,然后突然升高了

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You can see them in the sopranos and altos up there and they just sit there on that pitch--a long note: one, two, three, four.

你可以在高音与中音区看到他们,而且他们一直留在那个音高上,一个长音符,一,二,三,四

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Then the next pitch on the trumpet is actually an interval of a fifth.

然后下一个音高在小号那里,实际上是一个五度音程

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Time. Okay, pitch and time and pitch and duration, excellent, so those are the two dimensions of music and well, indeed we could even call them the axes of music because we tend to think of pitch on a vertical axis.

时间,音高和时间,或者是音高和时值,非常好,它们是音乐的两个维度,其实我们可以称呼它们为音乐的两轴,因为我们趋向于将音高放在竖轴上来考虑

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Well,if you go back to the formation of musical notation from the ninth through the twelfth centuries we see that very early on these two dimensions of music the two axes of music that we talked about before pitch vertically and duration horizontally, are in place and we have these spots in this grid.

回顾一下从公元九世纪至二十世纪,音乐记谱法的历史形成过程,我们可以看出,音乐的两个维度,就是我们之前提到的音乐的两个轴,纵轴是音高,横轴是时值,在早期已经存在了,我们在这样的网格上用点记录

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Let's start on the same pitch, C.

我们从相同的音高开始,C

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