来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：聆听音乐 第22集 第22集》

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  It's modern because of the new approach to rhythm.
  因为其全新的节奏所以十分现代
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  In the Romantic music that we have been listening to,
  我们之前听的浪漫主义音乐中
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  we would hear these long,
  我们听到过这种悠长
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  somewhat amorphous melodies,
  而有些随意的旋律
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  amorphous in terms of the rhythm.
  节奏很不固定
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  But now here with the advent of Modernism in the twentieth century
  然而随着二十世纪现代主义时期的到来
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  we get a much more driving type of rhythm.
  我们有了更加强劲的节奏
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  It almost in some ways goes back to the driving rhythms
  这几乎是和巴洛克时期的节奏差不多
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  of the Baroque except with one major difference,
  只不过有个很大的不同点
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  and that is that these modern rhythms are highly irregular.
  那就是现代的节奏非常非常的不规整
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  What we get oftentimes are irregular meters.
  大多数都是不规整的拍子
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  What would you imagine an irregular meter is?
  所谓的不规整的拍子是指什么呢