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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:59:44 EST
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- From: Scott Hammer <SCOTH@wmvm1.cc.wm.edu>
- Subject: Re: Time signatures
- In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:21:21 EST from <ST102315@BROWNVM>
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- Would you believe there's a thirties-vintage country song with some
- 5/4 in it? The song is "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" and is credited
- to A.P. and Sara Carter (though only God knows who actually wrote it --
- it almost certainly *wasn't* A.P.). The verses all stay in 4/4, and chorus
- goes merrily along in 4/4 also, except for one measure which is in 5/4.
- I wish I could find a way to represent this, but VM/CMS is not designed
- for expressing musical notation, so you'll just have to take my word for it. :)
-
- -Scott "On the Right Hand, On the Left Hand, Fifty Miles of Elbow Room" Hammer
- College of William and Mary
-