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2014年考研练习---翻译题

Part C Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

It might be poetic,philosophical,sensual,or mathematical,but in any case it must, in my view,have something to do with the soul of the human being.

Hence it is metaphysical;but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical: sound.

I believe it is precisely this permanent coexistence of metaphysical message through physical means that is the strength of music.

It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it,and not grasp music itself.

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions.

He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all signs of continuity.

The music is abrupt and seemingly disconnected,as in the last piano sonata.

In musical expression,he did not feel restrained by the weight of convention.

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