At 05:44 PM 1/10/99 -0800, Christopher Ambler wrote:
>> "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.
More of my bad memory again, shoot. Also, I have key sigs that are that
painful, I'm glad that I'm a guitarist, not a keyboard player.
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