Southeastern European folk music often yields "lopsided" meters when converted to Western notation--check out, e.g., the "alla bulgarese" movement in the Bartók (IIRC) 5th quartet. When my harp concerto was recorded in Moravia the musicians all took very well to extended sections in 5/4 and 7/4. When it was "premiered" in the US there was a lot of bitching about those meters from professionals who should've known better. And when I visited Hungary I was treated to a fine concert by grade-school level kids at one of the Kodaly schools, including an oboe duet by 4th graders, something we don't often here stateside.
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