时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:音乐咖啡厅


英语课

《The Mummers' Dance 艺者之舞》最先让人注意到的是风笛,隐约的,延绵在背景里,好象是从记忆里缓缓而来的风。而鼓声接踵而至,各种各样的鼓被统一成一个印象,不徐不缓,不紧不慢,却永不停息,推着人跟随它前进舞蹈。整首曲子由这两种乐器形成主要旋律,而偶尔出现的小提琴与吉它,好象是突然跳
出人群中的独舞,又象是灵机一动错出的一个花步。而 Loreena McKennitt 罗琳娜·麦肯尼特 的吟唱,把它们织成一个网,将聆听者着笼罩。


The Mummers’Dance描写的是春季Stratford 的一个夜晚,婆娑的树叶衬托蓝色的天空,随着风而摇摆的树枝条,好像是一群人在默默的不停的舞蹈。McKennitt的嗓音显得有点忧伤,忧伤背面则让人感觉到无限的生机,让人期待,并在期待中沉醉陶醉。《The Mummers’Dance》的歌词灵感来自于Loreena 自己1985年的一段读书笔记。歌曲中大量运用了风笛、手鼓、小提琴、竖琴等乐器,为歌曲增色不少,可是该首歌曲又不太像传统的Celtic 风格,或许这也正是她的魅力所在吧。Loreena McKennitt,一位凯尔特风格的歌手,可是令人惊奇的是,她不是爱尔兰或者苏格兰人,她是加拿大人,不过从她的名字可以知道,她也是具有爱尔兰血统的。(Mc, O\'什么的姓氏,都是爱尔兰特有的,而跟说唱MC的意思没关系)她是不是混血儿我不得而知,但她的音乐绝对混血,并非纯净的爱尔兰风味,这也使得她的音乐中多了一些动态的元素。同时她也是一位讲故事的高手,将古诗歌与传统音乐巧妙的相结合到了一起,将古老的故事与传说用她那如浮在空中的轻羽般轻灵缥缈的声音讲述,伴着迷人的音乐让你的耳朵与心灵共享。


英文歌词:


The mummer's dance
  艺者之舞
When in the springtime of the year
在一年之春
When the trees are crowned with leaves
当树生满繁茂的叶子时
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
当岑树和橡树,和白桦树、紫杉
Are dressed in ribbons fair
被装饰上丝带
When owls 1 call the breathless moon
当猫头鹰呼唤无息的月时
In the blue veil of the night
在兰色的夜的面纱下
The shadows of the trees appear
树影浮现
Amidst the lantern light
在灯笼的亮光中
We've been rambling 2 all the night
我们已漫游一夜
And some time of this day
还有白天的一些时间
Now returning back again
现在再次返回
We bring a garland gay
我们带来鲜艳的花环
Who will go down to those sh groves
它会走入荫蔽的小树林
And summon the shadows there
集起那边的阴影
And tie a ribbon on those sheltering arms
并且在庇护之臂上系上丝带
In the springtime of the year
在一年之春
The songs of birds seem to fill the wood
鸟儿的歌好象充满了整个树林
That when the fiddler plays
当琴者拨弄时
All their voices can be heard
鸟儿的所有的声音都能被听见
Long past their woodland days
远远地穿过它们的林中岁月
And so they linked their hands and danced
所以它们手拉手,跳着舞
Round in circles and in rows
成列成环地转着
And so the journey of the night descends
而后夜的旅程突然拜访
When all the shades are gone
当所有的林荫消失时
"A garland gay we bring you here
我们为你带来五彩的花环
And at your door we stand
我们站在你的门前
It is a sprout 3 well budded out
那是个顺利萌发的幼苗
The work of our lord's hand"
出自我们的国王之手.


 



n.猫头鹰( owl的名词复数 )
  • 'Clumsy fellows,'said I; 'they must still be drunk as owls.' “这些笨蛋,”我说,“他们大概还醉得像死猪一样。” 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
  • The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity. 大多数仓鸮都是笼养的。 来自辞典例句
adj.[建]凌乱的,杂乱的
  • We spent the summer rambling in Ireland. 我们花了一个夏天漫游爱尔兰。
  • It was easy to get lost in the rambling house. 在布局凌乱的大房子里容易迷路。
n.芽,萌芽;vt.使发芽,摘去芽;vi.长芽,抽条
  • When do deer first sprout horns?鹿在多大的时候开始长出角?
  • It takes about a week for the seeds to sprout.这些种子大约要一周后才会发芽。
学英语单词
5-lodo-2'-deoxyuridine
a sitting duck
acetolactic acids
aerial photograph fix
ajetina
amplitude modulation double sideband
apple-sauce
Arenaria stricta
automatic search circuit
bacillomyxin
banana cues
base insulator
bashley
breastplates
Cansten
champions
chinaroot greenbrier
coded p-frame
coke furnace
conditional error
control of eutrophication in the area
diagramming
disengaged positions
double the angle on the bow
driven handle lever
educational cinema
eminencies
English pluck
equilibrium formulation
equivalent length of pendulum
Euphorbia tithymaloides
evaluation of traineeship
exchange control territory
fiber-optic technical advisory group
flat type copper wire
Folisan
free entries
galvano-chemistry
goods-in-process inventory
H2O2
half viaduct
happen to know
hemodialytic
hijackings
incanous
interfield disparity
kick up a racket
Kumla
lbs per square in
lymphocyte
marine traffic investigation
mcmillan's inequality
metabolic liveweight
methane fermentation
momentariness
monoment
monopack
navigation water level
non-securities
non-tangential limit
outstandings
overhanging type steam hammer
oxonic pyrochlore
Paradisaea
pentahelicenes
petkeepers
phase step
photo-instrumentation
phrenic nerves
plate fold
preferential right
preventive services
prittie
Puerto Melinka
ratio of security to fixed liabilities
recauterizing
reformulating
remote sensing of oil pollution
Rowntrees
Saint-John Perse
scotiolite (hisingerite)
script files
sea-views
sectio Porro caesarea
sensorineural
sonance
spina (e. spine)
stone eye
stridulating sound
sweetleafs
synchronous protective code
They who play bowls must expect to meet with rubbers.
this
thresholds
tillmen
trousdale
two hands dead lift
ven? jugulares superficiales
Vieussens'annulus
voluntas moralis
wheepled
xtr