音律

The reasons why it became a great hit in Japan and number one on the American Billboard must be that the sounds of the pentatonic scale are nostalgic to the Japanese and exotic to the Americans.

它之所以在日本本土造成轰动，甚至在美国音乐排行榜中名列第一，肯定是因为，五音律让日本人听了怀旧，让美国人听了新鲜。

But we are straying from the main topic, so let us get back. The work in this album is by five now living Japanese composer-pianists who visualized and sketched the images of the thousand year old capital Kyoto, using the pentatonic scale and with the instrument representative of the West with about 300 years of history, the piano. What drama is the instrument to express?

看来我们有些偏离正题了，好，现在切入主题——这张专辑的作品，是由五位活跃于音乐节的日本作曲家兼钢琴家所作，以五音律为主体，配上西方具有300来年历史的代表性乐器——钢琴，生动再现了有一千年悠久历史的古城京都的一幕幕场景。

"Research on Temperament of Piano Sound" is a systematic description related with aesthetics about mathematics and physics of temperament study of piano art sound in the deep layer, opening out comprehensively the abundant implication of the swing on piano. Piano is not the musical instrument with only twelve-tone-equal temperament, and its structure of sound has three tuning systems in which twelve-tune-equal temperament is as basic frame, and just intonation and circle-of-fifths system are as addition.

&钢琴音响的乐律学研究&是对钢琴艺术音响进行深层系统的数理审美之描述，全面揭示钢琴丰富的音律蕴涵，即钢琴并非是单一的十二平均律乐器，其音响纵横结构是以十二平均律为基本框架，兼有纯律、五度相生律在内的&三律&乐器。

Of the importance of the Square of 8 and 9 grid relationship, Schwaller says, These two lengths, 8 and 9, are related to musical harmony. This is the tone in music and also the ratio between the diameter of a disk and the side of a square of the same surface area. The sum of 8 and 9 is 17, the famous number of Jabir [the famous Arabic alchemist of the 8th century C.E.].

对8方图和9方图的重要关系，古埃及考古学家，金字塔研究专家史沃乐先生说：这两个长度，8和9，和音律和谐规律是相关联的，它们是音乐中的调和与增强，也是一个圆的直径和等面积直角方形的边长的比率。8和9的和等于17，它是一个著名的阿拉伯术士在公元8世纪所使用的一个著名的数字。

Anyone with absolute, or perfect, pitch are able to identify by ear any note at some standard pitch or to sing a specified note at will.

参考译文：任何一个有全阶音律的人都能够通过耳朵分别标准音高或者任意唱出特定音符。

In the theme, Federico Garcia Lorca is the well-known contemporary poet by public in the Spanish literatures, and he is also the significant figure to deepen and spread the flamenco art. He mastered the temperament as well, leaving important recordings and documents of flamenco art in the early century. He is so passionate about his own land that the poetry is full of Andalucia mood.

主题中的诗人费德里哥E贾西亚E罗卡为西班牙语文学世界中最为世人熟悉的现代诗人，也是佛拉明哥艺术深化与流传重要的推手，本身又功音律，为世纪初的佛拉明哥艺术留下重要录音与文献，再加上他对本土的热爱，诗作充满对安达鲁西亚的情怀。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。