Now there's another kind of counterpoint called "Free counterpoint" where it's highly independent lines are sounding but they're not imitating one another.

现在又有了另外一种,对位法叫作,自由对位,乐曲里独立的声线同时进行,但是没有彼此模仿

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So this is imitative counterpoint because there's one idea that keeps coming back and back and back.

那么,这是模仿式对位法,因为,有个乐句一遍又一遍地重现

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So, there's the melody up above, this bassoon playing the counterpoint, kind of in the middle, and then the bass playing these notes quietly underneath.

然后,旋律在上面,这支巴松管来演奏对位,基本上在中间,而低音提琴在底下悄悄地演奏这些音符

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Sixteen bars there, again, and a perfect example of free counterpoint.

又是16小节,而且是自由对位的一个完美例子

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We also use the word "Counterpoint" Sort of synonymous with it.

我们也称之为,对位法

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If we had melody up above in kind of a counterpoint, as Marcus says, there, in the middle, what was the-- we had one other part, and what was that?

在对位法上,如果高处有旋律,像马库斯说的,那在中间,还有另一部分,那是什么呢

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So it's complex stuff, this polyphony or this counterpoint.

这是复杂的东西,不论是复音还是对位法

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Okay, they're doing like a counterpoint, right.

对,它们好像采用了对位法,对的

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There's the bassoon, counterpoint.

这里是巴松管,对位

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