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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:30:56 EST
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- From: Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: most bizarre combination of music and scenario
- In-Reply-To: Message of Sat,
- 16 Jan 1993 12:50:48 -0500 from <mjferzig@MIDWAY.U CHICAGO.EDU>
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- On Sat, 16 Jan 1993 12:50:48 -0500 <mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
- >
- >I'm curious - What is the strangest (conventional - not aleatoric or
- >something - I'm referring to numbers here) time signature that you've ever
- >seen / heard in a piece of music? What was your experience with it like?
- >Was it hell to perform, if you did so, or easier than it looked?
- >
- Umm. . . probably 3/64 in a piece by Telemann. It's the "Gulliver" suite.
- Gets down to 256th notes at one point. It's a joke, of course, but still.
- The strangest that I've played was 7/4. Strangest subdivision is "Blue Rondo
- a la Turk": 9/8 subdivided 2/2/2/3 instead of 3/3/3. There's also several
- early music markings that are fairly strange to look at: a backwards cut time
- mark, meaning half of cut time; a circle with a dot in it, etc.
-