We simplify it by saying this: that there are three fundamental textures: monophonic texture, homophonic texture, and polyphonic texture.

简而言之,有三种基本织体,单音织体,主音织体和复音织体

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Last time we said we had three kinds of texture in music which are: monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic.

上一次我们说过,音乐中有三种织体,单音,主音和复音织体

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So we'll start it at pitch there and I'll give you two and then we'll sing "La" And we will exemplify monophonic texture.

那我们就从这个音高开始,我喊到二然后我们一起唱,啦,我们来演示一下单音织体

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So that's monophonic texture, just one pitch.

这就是单音织体,只有一个音高

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Here's a group of sounds, different pitches and actually three different pitches in there, as opposed to just one pitch--one pitch, three pitches or three or four pitches, moving in different ways, kind of independent rhythmic chords, so that's the difference between monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic texture.

这是一组音,不同的音高,事实上三个不同的音高,相对于一个音高,一个音高,三个音高或四个音高,以不同方式运动,像有独立节奏的和弦,这就是单音,主音和复音织体的区别

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We're singing below middle C and the ladies are singing up an octave but that's still monophonic texture-- those notes have the same names.

我们唱得比中央c低,而女士们高了一个八度,但这还是单音织体,这些音的音名是一样的

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I--We were going D G B G B so as long as the notes have the same names or it sounds the same, even though there may be octave doubling in there we still think of that as monophonic texture.

我,我们只要,D G B G B,只要各个音的音名一样或听起来一样,尽管其中有双八度音,我们仍把它作为做单音织体

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