[Magdalen] R.I.P. Dave Brubeck

[Jay Weigel]

Dunno about any of those, but "Rocky Road to Dublin", an Irish fiddle tune
which occasionally becomes an earworm for me, is in 9/8. Actually there are
quite a few of those fiddle tunes that are in weird time signatures.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

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