But in the course of history, we settled beginning in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, down into just two patterns: what we call the major pattern and the minor pattern.

但在历史的发展过程中,在十六到十七世纪期间,人们最终确定了下列两种模式,我们称之为大调模式和小调模式

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