来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：聆听音乐 第20集 第20集》

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  It sounds like a melody, it sounds like a theme,
  听起来像是个旋律 像是个主题
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  or music that sounds like it's coming between themes,
  或者像是穿插在主题之间的音乐
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  of leading us somewhere, transitional music,
  引领着我们 过渡到
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  music that may be a contrasting theme,
  有着强烈主题对比的音乐上
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  music that ends a section.
  作为一个片段的结尾
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  So it's music that does something, music that's trying
  总之音乐起着这样的作用 它试图
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  to get us from point A to point B and point C and so on,
  带着我们从A点到B点 再从B点到C等等
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  so it's a sort of rhetorical music,
  因此 这是一种比较花哨的音乐
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  teleological music if you will.
  你可以理解成带有目的性的音乐
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  Okay.
  好的
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  Now, let's turn to a piece of romantic music.
  下面让我们来听一段浪漫主义时期的乐曲
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  And before we do that I'm going to say a thing or two about this
  在这之前 我将要说一说关于浪漫主义乐曲的