They're these building blocks that support the melody and they have to change for that melody to be consonant all the time.

这些和弦是旋律的基础,和弦的变化必须和旋律保持协调一致

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Seems very simple, but took Beethoven a long time to iron all this out and make this perfect melody, the prototypical melody in a way.

似乎很简单,但是花了贝多芬很长时间来琢磨,最后做出这段完美的旋律,这段典范旋律

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I don't know whether it's easier for gentlemen or not because our voices are sort of in the bass, but maybe this is payback time since ladies are always singing the melody.

我不知道是否男人更容易唱出低声部，因为我们的嗓音本来就低，不过这也可能是女士们报复的时间到了，她们总是得唱旋律。

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Today we're going to move away from the first dimension of music that we've been looking at, which is duration, or time, and begin to work with the second, which is pitch, and melody.

今天我们要结束对音乐的第一个维度的学习,即时值,或者说拍子,并开始讨论音乐的第二维度,即音高与旋律

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