スティーブジョブスのスピーチで見る英語の音楽的構成解析３

３つの話の３つ目。

08:38
　
4 My third story 1.5
2 is about death. 1
4.5 When I was 17, 6.5
4.5 I read a quote that went something like: 2
4 "If you live each day as if it was your last, 1
4 someday you'll most certainly be right." 5
4.5 It made an impression on me, 6.5
2.5 and since then, 6.5
3 for the past 33 years, 6.5L
2.5 I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 7L
2.5 "If today were the last day of my life, 1.5
1 would I want to do 6L
1 what I am about to do today?" 1H
2.5 And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, 6
1 I know I need to change something. 7
　
09:23
　
2 Remembering that I'll be dead soon 1H
1 is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. 1
4.5 Because almost everything 6
3 ― all external expectations, 4.5
1.5 all pride, 4.5
1.5 all fear of embarrassment or failure 5
6 - these things just fall away in the face of death, 1.5
2.5 leaving only what is truly important. 1H
1.5 Remembering that you are going to die 5
2 is the best way I know 6L
3 to avoid the trap of thinking 5.5
1.5 you have something to lose. 6.5
4 You are already naked. 5
1.5 There is no reason 1H
1.5 not to follow your heart. 6.5
　
09:56
　
6 About a year ago 1.5
2 I was diagnosed with cancer. 4.5
2.5 I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, 6.5
2 and it clearly showed a tumor 6
1.5 on my pancreas. 5
1H I didn't even know what a pancreas was. 7
2 The doctors told me 4
4 this was almost certainly a type of cancer 2
7 that is incurable, 4
3 and that I should expect to live no longer 6.5
2 than three to six months. 1H
2.5 My doctor advised me to go home 3
1.5 and get my affairs in order, 5.5
2 which is doctor's code 7L
6 for prepare to die. 7L
5 It means to try to tell your kids everything 1H
6.5 you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them 6.5
1H in just a few months. 1H
3 It means to make sure everything is buttoned up 6.5
2.5 so that it will be as easy as possible 5
1.5 for your family. 7
2 It means to say your goodbyes. 4
　
10:43
　
2.5 I lived with that diagnosis all day. 6.5
2 Later that evening I had a biopsy, 5.5
2 where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, 5.5
4 through my stomach and into my intestines, 1H
4.5 put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. 1H
2.5 I was sedated, 2
3 but my wife, who was there, 1H
5.5 told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope 5.5
1.5 the doctors started crying 4
1 because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer 5.5
1 that is curable with surgery. 5
1 I had the surgery 6L
1H and thankfully, 2
1 I'm fine now. 4
　
11:16
　
4.5 This was the closest I've been to facing death, 2H
1H and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. 6.5
4.5 Having lived through it, 5.5
1.5 I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: 7
7 No one wants to die. 1H
4.5 Even people who want to go to heaven 6.5
2 don't want to die to get there. 4.5
3 And yet 5.5
4 death is the destination we all share. 1H
7 No one has ever escaped it. 2.5
2.5 And that is 5.5
2.5 as it should be, 6.5
1.5 because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. 5
6.5 It's Life's change agent. 5
1.5 It clears out the old to make way for the new. 1H
1.5 Right now 1
1 the new is you, 1H
1 but someday not too long from now, 6L
1.5 you will gradually become the old 7L
1 and be cleared away. 1H
4 Sorry to be so dramatic, 5.5
3 but it is quite true. 1
　
12:15
　
1.5 Your time is limited, 5
5 so don't waste it living someone else's life. 5
3 Don't be trapped by dogma 6.5
2 ― which is living with the results of other people's thinking. 7
3 Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner(1) voice. 1H
2 And most important, 5
3 have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. 7
2 They somehow already know 1H
1.5 what you truly want to become. 6L * many-1H phrase
2 Everything else 5.5L
1 is secondary. 5.5
　
12:41
　
3 When I was young, 1.5(1H->1.5)
3 there was an amazing publication 1H
2.5 called The Whole Earth Catalog, 4.5
2.5 which was one of the bibles of my generation. 7L
4.5 It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand 1H
2.5 not far from here in Menlo Park, 1.5
2.5 and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. 5
7 This was in the late 1960's, 5.5
5 before personal computers and desktop publishing, 1H
4 so it was all made with typewriters, 4.5
5 scissors, and polaroid cameras. 6.5
3 It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 7
4.5 35 years before Google came along: 1H
2H it was idealistic, 5.5
2 overflowing with neat tools 1.5
1H and great notions. 6.5L
　
13:28
　
5.5 Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, 7
4 and then 6.5
3 when it had run its course, 1H
2 they put out a final issue. 5.5
4 It was the mid-1970s, 5
1.5H and I was your age. 5.5
2 On the back cover of their final issue 6L
1.5 was a photograph 5
1 of an early morning country road, 4.5(1H->4.5)
3 the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on 6.5
2 if you were so adventurous. 7
2 Beneath it 6.5
3 were the words: 2.5
4 "Stay Hungry. 1H
1 Stay Foolish." 1H
2 It was their farewell message 1H
7L as they signed off. 5
2 Stay Hungry. 6L
7L Stay Foolish. 5
2.5 And I have always wished that 4.5
2.5 for myself. 1H
1H And now, 1H
7L as you graduate to begin anew, 1H
1H I wish that for you. 5.5
2.5 Stay Hungry. 1
2 Stay Foolish. 1
1.5 Thank you all very much. 5.5L
　
14:17

３つ目の話は何かトーンが変わりました。語尾のアクセントになる1Hより、文頭の1度が目立ったように思えました。ちょっとこれといって具体的な数字は出せないんですが。

それから、いくつか印象的なフレーズが登場しました。

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner(1) voice.

innerが１度で強いアクセントを持つにもかかわらず、voiceがさらにオクターブ高い１度の1H（８度）でアクセントをつけられています。

what you truly want to become

most importantなこととして語られるフレーズですが、何と1Hの多い事。ものすごい強調されて聞こえますし、英語っぽいフレーズです。

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

最後に３回繰り返されますが、毎回音程が変わって、いろんな伝え方をしています。私にとっては、映画グッドウィルハンティングの中で精神科医だったロビンウィリアムスがマットデイモンに繰り返し言った、"It's not your fault"ぐらい印象的。あれは確か同じ音程で繰り返したと思いますが。

単語の発音は意味を伝えるのに重要ですが、こうして見ると音高やアクセントというのは、意思を伝えるのに重要なんじゃなかろうか。