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humans and time signatures
timehat:
--- Quote from: ALoveSupreme on 05 Oct 2006, 14:50 ---
A lot of pop music is in 6/8 as well.
Maybe it just became trendy for a while, but a bunch of bands I heard a bit back were frequently using 7/4 and other weird stuff (I know it's not the particular bag of this forum, but the band The Junior Varsity uses some pretty weird stuff, i.e. Demo Car City, If You Could Paint Your Own Vacation, and some more that I don't really remember). I'm still not really sure what the meter was for a song an older band of mine wrote. The "feel" of it was two bars of 3, one of 4 and then one bar of 3.
Anyways, the same question could be asked of why Western music only uses 12 tones in it's scale. A lot of eastern music uses pleanty of quarter tones that I'm guessing is never heard 'round these parts.
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Yes, but in reality, 6/8 is two groups of triplets, so you could really think of it as 2/3 which isn't a real time signature, but the real beat is the dotted quarter, and the eigth notes are the subdivisions. Speaking of 7/4, Broken Social Scene has that song "7/4 Shoreline", which I thought was a pretty cool song, but a ridiculous title (Apocalypse in 9/8, anyone?). Also, there is some variation from 12 tone music in western society. Jazz and Blues use bends and glissandi wich are sometimes specifcally inflected microtones, which supposedly comes from the African music heritage. Also, the (American, I believe) composer Harry Partch worked with microtonality quite often and supposedly wrote some "microtonal operas" which I haven't heard, so I can't give you a personal opinion on it or anything, but maybe you'd like to check it out.
ALoveSupreme:
Well, of all the things I've heard in my day, this Harry Partch character is definatly not one of them. I will definatly look into that. Thanks.
*edited for unnecessary quotes.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: ALoveSupreme on 05 Oct 2006, 14:50 ---
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 05 Oct 2006, 12:55 ---The fact that most popular music is in 4/4 is the reason why most of mine is in 6/8 or 5/4, or even 8/8 just for different accentuations.
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A lot of pop music is in 6/8 as well.
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Yes. But I choose to ignore it because it's my favourite timing.
ALoveSupreme:
Agreed. Waltzes > most anything.
Misereatur:
Aren't Waltzes usually in 3/4? There is a difference.
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