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第1段
1 .<-NARRATOR:->Listen to part of a lecture in a music history class.
旁白：听下面一段音乐史课堂的讲解。
第2段
1 .<-MALE PROFESSOR:->So, uh, if you were a musician in the United States in the early twentieth century, where could you work?
教授：嗯，如果你是美国二十世纪早期的音乐人，你会在哪里工作呢？
第3段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Same as now, I suppose... in an orchestra mainly...
学生：我想和现在一样吧，主要在管弦乐队里工作。
第4段
1 .<-MALE PROFESSOR:->OK, and where would the orchestra be playing?
教授：好的，那么管弦乐队又在哪里演奏呢？
第5段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Uh, in a concert hall... or a dance hall?
学生：呃，在音乐会或者舞厅？
第6段
1 .<-MALE PROFESSOR:->That's right, and smaller groups of musicians were needed in theaters as accompaniment to visual entertainment, like cabarets and variety shows; but, the largest employer for musicians back then was the film industry- especially during the silent-film era.
教授：是的。还有一些视觉娱乐项目，也会需要一群音乐人在剧场里伴奏，如卡巴雷歌舞及各种各样的表演等，但是那时候最需要音乐人的产业却是电影业，尤其是在无声电影时代。
第7段
1 .<-MALE STUDENT:->Really? You mean being a piano player or something? I thought movie theaters would have used recorded music...
学生：真的吗？你的意思是钢琴家之类的？我以为电影剧场里会用些录制好的音乐。
第8段
1 .<-MALE PROFESSOR:->Well, no, not during the silent-film era.
教授：不是的，不是在无声电影时代。
2 .We're talking a period of maybe 30 years where working in movie theaters was the best job for musicians. It was very well paid.
那三十年，音乐人最好的工作就是在电影剧场里面工作，他们薪水很高。
3 .The rapid growth of the film industry meant movie theaters were popping up everywhere... so suddenly there was this huge demand for musicians.
电影业的迅速发展使电影剧场到处涌现，所以突然间对音乐人的需求非常大。
4 .In fact, over 20,000 jobs for musicians were gone- disappeared-at the end of the silent-film era.
事实上，在无声电影时代结束的时期，有两万多的音乐人失业。
5 .Twenty-thousand!
2万人！
6 .OK, so, from the beginning, music was a big part of film.
好了，那我们从头来说。音乐是电影中非常重要的一部分，
7 .Even at the first...
即使是在在最初…
第9段
1 .Excuse me, Professor?
打扰一下教授。
2 .I think I read somewhere that they used music to drown out the sound of the film projectors...
我想我在哪里读到过，他们是用音乐的声音来淹没电影放映机的声音是吗？
第10段
1 .Ye-yeah, that's a good story, isn't it?
是的。很有意思吧。
2 .Too bad it keeps getting printed as if it were the only reason music was used.
问题是人们总在这样说，好像这是放音乐唯一的原因一样。
3 .Well, think about it.
但是你们想想，
4 .Even if that were the case, noisy projectors were separated from the main house pretty quickly- yet music continued to accompany film... so...
即便如此，不久之后有噪音的放映机就与放映厅分割开来了，但还是有音乐继续来为电影伴奏。
第11段
1 .As I was saying, even the very first public projection of a movie had piano accompaniment... so music was pretty much always there.
所以正如我说的，即使是第一个公映的电影也有钢琴的伴奏，音乐一直都在。
2 .What's strange to me, though, is that at first, film music didn't necessarily correspond to what was on the screen.
而让我感到奇怪的是，起初的电影配乐是不需要和荧幕上的内容相关的。
3 .You know, a fast number for a chase; deep bass notes for danger; something light and humorous for comedy... and that's instantly recognizable now, even expected.
你们知道，嗯，追逐场景用快节奏的音乐，危险的场景用低沉的贝斯，喜剧用轻快幽默的音乐，现在大家很快就能识别出来，甚至人们期待这样的背景音乐。
4 .But, in the very early days of film, any music was played.
但是在电影早期，任何音乐都演奏过。
5 .A theater owner would just buy a pile of sheet music, and musicians would play it, no matter what it was.
剧院的院长就是随便买来一堆活页乐谱，音乐人们演奏就可以了，而不管内容是什么。
6 .Pretty quickly though, thankfully, everybody realized the music should suit the film.
幸好不久之后，大家意识到音乐应该和电影的内容相符合。
第12段
1 .So, eventually, filmmakers tried to get more control over the musical accompaniment of their films and specified what type of music to use, and how fast or slow to play it...
所以最终，电影制片人开始尝试控制音乐人的伴奏，专门规定使用什么样的音乐，用快节拍还是慢节拍来进行演奏。
第13段
1 .Are you saying there was no music written specifically for a particular movie?
你的意思是说没有专门为电影写的音乐吗？
第14段
1 .Yeah, original scores weren't common then.
没有，原创音乐在那时还并不普遍。
2 .Rarely, a filmmaker might send along an original score composed especially for a film... but usually a compilation of music that already existed would be used.
很少有电影制片人会专门为一部电影进行原版音乐创作，通常是使用已经存在了的音乐。
3 .Yeah, that was a good time for a lot of musicians.
是啊，那时候对于音乐人来讲真是个黄金时期。
4 .But that all changed with the introduction of sound-on-film technology.
但是在有声电影技术出现以后，一切都改变了。
第15段
1 .Actually, even before that- organs could mimic a number of instruments and also do some sound effects, so they were starting to replace live orchestras in some movie theaters.
事实上，甚至在那之前，风琴可以模仿许多乐器，还可以做一些音效，所以在一些电影剧场就开始雇佣一个人来演奏风琴。
2 .And it only takes one person to play an organ...
从而取代了乐团。
第16段
1 .OK, but even after that, someone still had to play the music for the sound recordings, the soundtracks...
好的。但是即便在那之后，还是需要有人继续为音乐录制来演奏啊，就是电影配乐唱片。
第17段
1 .Yeah, but, think of all the movie theaters there were, most employing about six to eight musicians.
是的，但是想想那时所有电影剧院多数都雇佣六到八个音乐人
2 .Some even had full orchestras.
有的甚至是整个管弦乐队。
3 .But in the early 1930s, most theater owners installed new sound systems.
而在 20 世纪 30 年代初，多数的剧院拥有者们都安装了新的有声系统。
4 .So suddenly a lot of musicians were looking for work.
所以突然间，音乐人们都开始找工作了。
第18段
1 .Once recording technology took off, studio jobs, working exclusively for one film company, uh, studio jobs did become available.
录制技术取消以后，录音工作室专门为一个电影公司工作，呃，工作室的工作就炙手可热起来。
2 .But the thing is, each major movie company pretty much had only one orchestra for all their productions... a set number of regular musicians... so, if you could get it, studio musician was a good job- if you were cut out for it.
但问题是，每个大的电影公司基本都只有一个乐团来负责所有的电影生产，就是一群固定的音乐人，所以你就会发现，播音室音乐人的工作是很好的。如果你适合的它（音乐人的工作）的话。
3 .Musicians had to be able to read music very well, since the producers were very conscious of how much money they were spending- they didn't want to waste any time.
那么音乐人就要具备很好的读懂音乐的能力，因为制片人们知道他们的钱要花的恰到好处，他们可不想浪费时间。
4 .So, a musician was expected to play complicated pieces of music pretty much without any preparation.
所以音乐人要在毫无准备的情况下来演奏许多复杂的音乐。
5 .If one couldn't do it, there were plenty of others waiting to try, so there was a lot of pressure to do well.
如果你不能做到的话，还有很多人乐意去尝试，因此想做好的话需要很大的压力。