All right.

好的
Let's proceed with our discussion of musical style.

让我们继续关于音乐风格的讨论
And this is going to be mostly

这个讨论多半将是
a comparison of musical style in different style periods.

对不同风格时期的音乐风格进行对比
And we've put the titles of those style periods up on the board there.

我们也已将那些风格罗列在黑板上
Once again,

再次重申
this is a typically Western exercise that we are dealing with here.

我们这里所做的练习是很有西方特色的
We love to organize material so that we can simplify it

我们喜欢组织材料使其简化
and we can deal with it--

并可以用不同方式分析处理它们
whether it's attributing to an individual,

不论材料是属于个人