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流行音乐流行密码 　　相信不少同学喜欢听流行音乐吧？为什么有些曲子能脍炙人口、经久不衰，有些曲子却只是昙花一现、转瞬即逝？音乐指挥Charles Hazlewood带我们走访众多音乐人，一起探讨伟大流行曲诞生的秘密―― 　　学习小提示：本文为英式发音，但被访者之间有口音差别，喜欢英音的同学模仿时需留意。另外，文中出现了不少音乐用语，我们用不同颜色做标记，大家不妨收集起来归类记忆哦。 　　 　　A great pop song tells a human story. It demands our attention and sticks in the memory. A pop song can make us want to sing and dance, or transport us to another time and place. 　　Martin Fly (Songwriter): Pop’s almost like a…it’s a different country; it’s a different place; it’s an imaginary place where everything’s perfect. 　　What does it take to create a hit song? 　　 　　A Killer Tune 　　Steve Levine (Arranger): With a pop record, there are so many 1)defining things that you have to get right, because essentially it’s going to land on a radio producer’s desk, and if you don’t hit him “bang” in a few seconds…gonna go down the pile to the next one. 　　The best songwriters and producers have mastered the art of 2)hooking listeners, finding 3)subtle but effective ways of 4)seducing us. The most fundamental of these is a killer tune. 　　When it comes to melody, most pop composers agree simplicity is best. 　　Nick Ingman (Arranger): They are mostly simple and of very limited range[音域]. That’s partly to do with the skill of the performer. It’s also partly to do with 5)Joe Public’s, you know, 6)accessibility to that material. They don’t want something that’s too complicated. 　　Richard Niles (Conductor): The human mind works in a certain way. We don’t like to be bored and we don’t like to be constantly 7)assaulted with information, so to get the balance right is a 8)recipe for success. 　　Something that’s really important for a pop song to be successful is that it instantly grabs your attention. And something ABBA注 are great at is the memorable melody, the memorable motif[乐旨] which just sticks in your mind. Now this is called a “hook,” because 　　9)literally it hooks into your brain. 　　Allan Moore (Professor of pop): There are two different kinds of hook. One is a sort of a memory 10)