Even more simple than I suggested and all the better.

Chuck


On Jun 29, 2005, at 7:23 PM, Ken Durling wrote:

IIRC, it's written in 6/8 with straight quarters on "me-ri-ca"

Ken


At 06:57 PM 6/29/2005, you wrote:


On Jun 29, 2005, at 6:45 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:


(the "I want to live in America" effect


I don't remember how Bernstein wrote this, but I'd write it with one combined time signature 6/8 and 3/4 and think that that was pretty clear. It seems cluttered to change time signatures every measure for something as consistent as this example. I'd trust musicians to understand that in a flash.

Chuck





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