> "Take five", by David Brubeck is an example. I sounds like a fairly
>straight-forward and engaging tune, but it's written in seven/fifths time
>and can only be comfortably played in E-flat, on the piano keyboard. Normal
>listeners have no problem listening and pretending to understand it
>however. The appearance of normalacy may be deceptive.
Point of clarification - "Take Five" is in 5/4 time, not 7/5. Indeed, you
cannot have a time signature of x/[any number] where [any number] is
not a power of 2 without bending the rules in a very painful way.
Christopher
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