We said before that in Western music we have musical notation.

我们以前说过在西音乐里有音乐记法。

And musical notation is relied on more in Western music than any other musical civilization around the world.

而音乐记法在西音乐中更受倚重比在全世界其它音乐文明中地位更高。

Musical notation is really very simple.

乐很简单。

A lot of the words we use in music with our musical notation are in Italian.

我们在音乐中用我们乐使用很多词都是意大利语。

The letters looked like clothes hung out to dry on a line and they looked more like musical notation than writing.

这些字母看起来像是挂在一根绳子上晾干衣服，而且它们看起来更像是乐而不是文字。

" High" can also be used in talking about musical notation; we can talk about a high note and a low note – high note up here, low note down here.

“高” 也可以用在乐上；我们可以讨论高音和低音——高音在这里， 低音在这里。