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聆听音乐中文讲义 21. Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet 印象派音乐和异国情调：德彪西，拉威尔和莫奈 好的 让我们继续关于音乐风格的讨论Lets proceed with our discussion of musical style. 这个讨论多半将是And this is going to be mostly 对不同风格时期的音乐风格进行对比a comparison of musical style in different style periods. 我们也已将那些风格罗列在黑板上And weve put the titles of those style periods up on the board there. 再次重申Once again, 我们这里所做的练习是很有西方特色的this is a typically Western exercise that we are dealing with here. 我们喜欢组织材料 使其简化We love to organize material so that we can simplify it 并可以用不同方式分析处理它们and we can deal with it-- 不论材料是属于个人whether its attributing to an individual, 还是需要多人合作完成things that a large number of people do, 不论是将随机的鼓点组合成节拍whether its grouping random units of pulses into meter, 还是面对一组非常复杂的现象or whether its taking a highly complex group of phenomena 并将这些现象归入特定的风格时期and putting them particular style periods, 我们喜欢这么做的原因是we like to do that 这可使我们以某种有序的方式处理资料because it allows us to deal with the material in some kind of organized fashion. 因此我们在黑板上列举了不同风格时期So weve got our various periods up here. 之前提过As mentioned though, 我们不会对后现代主义进行深入研究we wont going into the post-modernist in any significant way here. 现在我要求你们Now what youll be asked to do 能够识别一首乐曲所创作的年代is identify the period in which a particular piece is written, 如果在期末考试中出现这类题and if it turns out that on our final test, 我们碰巧播放一段we happen to play for you a piece 乐曲列表上面的音乐片段thats on the list of pieces that we give you, 那么 你们就需要自己鉴别then youre responsible for identifying 作曲家以及乐曲的名字the name of the composer and the name of the piece. 如果那段乐曲没在你们手中的列表里列出If the piece we play is not on your list, 那么你们要做的就是答出其所属风格时期then all you would be asked to do is identify the style period. 但是 你们还会被要求做件更重要的事However, youre asked to do something even more important than that 那就是阐述and thats to tell us 为什么这段乐曲属于这个特定时期的风格why its in this particular style period. 我认为仅仅知道浪漫主义这一名词It does no good--I dont think--just to say Romantic 而不清楚其内涵 对你们毫无益处and then going to walk away from it. 我会要求你们