And musical notation is relied on more in Western music than any other musical civilization around the world.

而音乐记谱法在西方音乐中更受倚重,比在全世界其它音乐文明中地位更高

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Now for the rest of the session today, what I'd like to do is take examples from the realm of pop music and use them as paradigms for what happens in the world of classical music.

今天剩下的时间里，我想给大家看一些流行音乐领域的例子,然后和古典乐领域进行对比。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It turns out in the world of classical music there's a stereotype of women being simply less proficient than men: they play smaller than men, they don't have the same force and they have smaller techniques, they're more temperamental and so on.

在古典音乐界,有一个刻板印象,女人的造诣就是不如男人：,她们演奏得不如男人宏大，她们力量不如男人，她们技巧不如男人，她们喜怒无常等等。

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So, what we're dealing here with is a situation where the ancient Greeks were very much into mathematics as a way of explaining the world and explaining music in particular And they thought these ratios were primary.

那么,我们现在要潜心琢磨,古希腊人热衷于,用数学来解释世界,尤其是音乐的这种情形,他们认为这些比例才是基础

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