But since the St.John's curriculum aims to span almost all of Western culture, students study every branch of the liberal arts - including music.

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There's a real sense, I think, in which Milton wanted to re-create all of Western culture or to re-create all of Western culture in his own image.

我认为，米尔顿想要完全重建西方文化,或者说是按他自身的形象重建西方文化,是有切实意义的。

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In other words, he's thinking about the development of Western culture.

换句话说，德里达在思考西方文化的发展。

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You, the intelligentsia of the next generation, will be those that preserve this great treasure of Western culture and it is a great treasure of Western culture.

你们,未来一代的知识分子们,会成为这一西方文化中,灿烂瑰宝的保护者,它确实是西方文化中的灿烂瑰宝

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Musical notation was the first graph in Western culture.

音乐记谱法是西方文化中第一种图示法

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So musical notation: the first grid pattern in Western culture-- but it does lock us in in interesting ways that we may-- you perhaps have never considered-- compared to how music is made in other cultures.

因此音乐记谱法,是西方文化中最早的网格图示,但这也限制了我们以某种有趣的方式,你们也许从来没有想过的方式创作,相对其他文化中音乐创作的过程而言

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