The work was first performed in Germany in two thousand to mark two hundred fifty years since the death of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

It's a puzzle, but it has for its delight a kind of solitary quality, both of the composer and of the solver of the chess problem.

它是一个谜语，却具有某种令人愉快的自我的特性，不论是设题的人还是解题的人都能感知到。

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A motive is just a little cell, a germ, out of which the composer will build other musical material.

动机只是个微小的细胞,一个胚芽,基于它 作曲家会创造新的音乐素材

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"Something happened post-World War Two where a divide occurred between the audience and the composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Who is the composer of the piece that you're about to hear and what is its title or what's it called?

下面你们要听到的片段的作曲家是谁,曲名是什么

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Many performers who have recorded traditional material have listed themselves as the composer.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

So the composer in the West is very important, more important than the composer in other cultures.

所以在西方,作曲家的地位是非常重要的,比其他文化中的作曲家更重要

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Goldmark had taught the composer George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Who is the composer of this and what--in what composition is this piece used?

作曲者是谁,片段出自哪部作品

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And some of the composers have these jazzy licks, and there's one composer that has very atmospheric avant garde sound.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

We can kind of freeze dry this thing and store it and then bring it back to life more or less exactly as the composer had intended.

我们相当于把这件作品干燥冷藏起来,并能够还原作品,比较精确地吻合作曲家的原意

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His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

So again the process of notation allows the composer to loom larger.

所以再一次强调记谱法的作用,它让作曲家的地位更加突出

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This song by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim first became famous in the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Anybody know that piece and the name of the composer?

有谁识得此曲,识得它的作者吗

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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill will play a work written by composer John Williams for the event.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The composer-- Anybody know the composer of this?

曲作者,谁知道刚刚这段乐曲的作曲是谁

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The book is based on a children's opera by the Jewish Czech composer Hans Krasa.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

So who is the composer of that?

作者是谁

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The author notes that Alan Lomax apparently claimed composer credit on about eight hundred songs.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The great architect, the thinker is the composer and the performer, the violinist, gets this piece of-- gets this blueprint or black print in the case of musical notation and is expected simply to replicate the black print.

伟大的建筑师,构想者,是作曲家,而演奏者,比如小提琴手,拿到这张,拿到这张蓝图之后,对音乐记谱法来说该叫,黑图,他只是被要求简单地把黑图复制出来

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"Every composer is different. I always get my notes at the piano, first and foremost.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

That's a one-movement work in which the composer tries to tell a story or play out an historic event or, in the case of the Strauss, to give us the beginning of the contents of a philosophical novel through music.

交响诗是类单乐章作品,作曲家试图从中讲述一个故事,或是再现一个历史事件,而施特劳斯,通过音乐,为我们讲述了一部哲学小说开头的内容

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In nineteen eighty-three she became the first female composer to win a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

It gives a sense of what this music is all--really all about and since, as we were saying, so much classical music doesn't have a text with it we've got to have some markers in there to know what the composer is trying to communicate to us.

让我们了解这段音乐想表达什么，就像我说的，大部分古典音乐并没有文字注解，而我们需要一些标记,来告诉我们作曲家想用这段音乐告诉我们什么。

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Mario Ritter tells us more. The Dallas Opera in Texas and four other opera companies hired American composer Jake Heggie to write the opera "Moby Dick."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

I want to play this one with the piano a little bit and I ask you the name of the composer of this piece-- it's a bit less well known but maybe not-- what it's called and when in the history of music it was written.

我会用钢琴演奏一小段,然后我会问它的作曲是谁,这曲子有点不太知名,也说不准,它叫什么,在音乐史上是什么时期创作出来的

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Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg was one of the people who praised George Gershwin.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The first, you can see on the board up there, is by another Russian composer, Modest Musorgsky.

首先,你可以看到那边的黑板上,是另一位俄罗斯作曲家,莫戴斯特·穆索尔斯基的作品

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Maurice Ravel was a French composer writing in the early twentieth century.

莫里斯·拉威尔是法国作曲家,是二十世纪早期的

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