[Magdalen] R.I.P. Dave Brubeck

[Scott Knitter]

Hmm...the mind spins, trying to remember 5/4 movements of sonatas. Paul Creston's, maybe? Or Tableaux de Provence? The memories!

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> On Dec 7, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I never encountered 5- or 7-beat meters until I got to college, and the
> first time nearly did me in!  I was accompanist for a saxophonist, and one
> movement of a sonata was in 5/4 time. By the time I was a senior and played
> piano in the Britten "War Requiem," the 7/4 movement (The "Lacrymosa,"
> maybe?) held few terrors.