His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

It's a puzzle, but it has for its delight a kind of solitary quality, both of the composer and of the solver of the chess problem.

它是一个谜语，却具有某种令人愉快的自我的特性，不论是设题的人还是解题的人都能感知到。

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A motive is just a little cell, a germ, out of which the composer will build other musical material.

动机只是个微小的细胞,一个胚芽,基于它 作曲家会创造新的音乐素材

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It was very popular. The composer earned a good living from the sales of the sheet music.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Who is the composer of the piece that you're about to hear and what is its title or what's it called?

下面你们要听到的片段的作曲家是谁,曲名是什么

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Years later, he admitted that he had no idea that George Gershwin was such a successful composer.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

The first, you can see on the board up there, is by another Russian composer, Modest Musorgsky.

首先,你可以看到那边的黑板上,是另一位俄罗斯作曲家,莫戴斯特·穆索尔斯基的作品

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This song by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim first became famous in the early nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

So the composer in the West is very important, more important than the composer in other cultures.

所以在西方,作曲家的地位是非常重要的,比其他文化中的作曲家更重要

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We're playing John Williams, who is a famous composer who did 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and 'Superman,' in addition to the classical music."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Who is the composer of this and what--in what composition is this piece used?

作曲者是谁,片段出自哪部作品

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The work was first performed in Germany in two thousand to mark two hundred fifty years since the death of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

We can kind of freeze dry this thing and store it and then bring it back to life more or less exactly as the composer had intended.

我们相当于把这件作品干燥冷藏起来,并能够还原作品,比较精确地吻合作曲家的原意

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Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer,producer and bandleader who has received much critical praise.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

So again the process of notation allows the composer to loom larger.

所以再一次强调记谱法的作用,它让作曲家的地位更加突出

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"Something happened post-World War Two where a divide occurred between the audience and the composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Maurice Ravel was a French composer writing in the early twentieth century.

莫里斯·拉威尔是法国作曲家,是二十世纪早期的

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The book is based on a children's opera by the Jewish Czech composer Hans Krasa.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Anybody know that piece and the name of the composer?

有谁识得此曲,识得它的作者吗

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The author notes that Alan Lomax apparently claimed composer credit on about eight hundred songs.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.

说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区

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"Every composer is different. I always get my notes at the piano, first and foremost.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

The composer-- Anybody know the composer of this?

曲作者,谁知道刚刚这段乐曲的作曲是谁

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Another composer,Jerome Kern, once said of Irving Berlin: "He has no place in American music.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

So who is the composer of that?

作者是谁

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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill will play a work written by composer John Williams for the event.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The great architect, the thinker is the composer and the performer, the violinist, gets this piece of-- gets this blueprint or black print in the case of musical notation and is expected simply to replicate the black print.

伟大的建筑师,构想者,是作曲家,而演奏者,比如小提琴手,拿到这张,拿到这张蓝图之后,对音乐记谱法来说该叫,黑图,他只是被要求简单地把黑图复制出来

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Mario Ritter tells us more. The Dallas Opera in Texas and four other opera companies hired American composer Jake Heggie to write the opera "Moby Dick."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

That's a one-movement work in which the composer tries to tell a story or play out an historic event or, in the case of the Strauss, to give us the beginning of the contents of a philosophical novel through music.

交响诗是类单乐章作品,作曲家试图从中讲述一个故事,或是再现一个历史事件,而施特劳斯,通过音乐,为我们讲述了一部哲学小说开头的内容

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Okay. Debussy, a French composer writing at the end of the nineteenth century in the Impressionist style, and the piece is called Moonlight-- Clair de Lune--but again you may- you'll come out of this course-- four months from now you'll know all of this stuff.

好的,德彪西,是一位法国作曲家,创作于,十九世纪末期,采用印象主义的手法,还有就是它叫做月光,月光,再说一遍,当你完成这个课程后,也就是四个月后,你会掌握到这方面所有的知识

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