Bach wrote a mass, Mozart wrote many masses, Beethoven wrote two important masses and so on.

巴赫写过一首弥撒曲,莫扎特写过很多,贝多芬写过两首重要的弥撒曲,等等

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It's a mass, obviously, for death and burial and the commemoration of those who have died.

它是弥撒曲,显然是为死亡和葬礼,以及祭奠那些亡灵

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Unlike the regular mass, the Requiem mass has a very special movement associated with it.

不像那些通常的弥撒曲,安魂弥撒曲,有个很特别的乐章

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We'll run about thirty seconds over as we listen to the "Lacrimosa" Out of the "Dies irae" Out of the Requiem Mass of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart written in Vienna 1791.

我们要多听三十秒,《末日经》里的《落泪之日》,沃尔夫冈·阿玛迪乌斯·莫扎特的《安魂弥撒曲》,写于1791年维也纳

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The Requiem mass is a particular kind of mass.

安魂弥撒曲是弥撒曲中特殊的一种

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It's a Requiem mass. What's a mass?

这是一个安魂弥撒曲,什么是弥撒曲

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Well, a mass is a genre of music.

弥撒曲是一种音乐体裁

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