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B'way songs in unusual time signatures
Broadway Star Joined: 11/19/05
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#25
Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:34pm
*bump*
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#26
Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:41pm
I believe it switches between 5/8 and 4/8. I musically directed some of Sweeney including this part and it was one of the hardest things to teach/play/sing. The whistling section is also very difficult as it changes from 5 to 4 and back again.
~Steven
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#27
Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:47pma measure of music in titanic is in 1/4. ALot of other songs are in 9/8
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#28
Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:51pmLost Souls in Woman in White is 7/8 , I think.
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re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#29
Posted: 6/7/06 at 9:05pm'move (youre steppin on my heart)'from DREAMGIRLS has a funny thing it does, very awkward jumps from 2/4 to 4/4 very quickly and strangely.
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#30
Posted: 6/7/06 at 9:25pm"Now I've Seen You" -- Honk ... In 12/6 if I remember correctly.
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re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#31
Posted: 6/7/06 at 9:52pmI was going to say Shmuel Song but someone beat me to it, but it basically switches between 4/4 and 7/8 over and over again. A lot of JRB stuff is pretty weird, I'd Give It All For You is in 6/4.
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#32
Posted: 6/7/06 at 11:23pm
Stranger to the Rain is in a pretty crazy time signature.
The other one that I knew off the top of my head is Everything's All Right, but that's been mentioned 
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#33
Posted: 6/7/06 at 11:26pm
Hm, a time signature of 12/6 is not possible. 12/8 perhaps?
~Steven
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#34
Posted: 6/7/06 at 11:46pm
Ladies In Their Sensitivities alternates in a shifting pattern of 4/8 and 5/8 and contains one measure of 6/8 before the last line.
Igor Stravinsky
Paris, France
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#35
Posted: 6/7/06 at 11:47pm
ALW Loves 7/8
Mungojerry and Rumpleteezer, The Money Kept Rolling In(and Out), Lost Souls, Lets have Lunch, Heaven on their minds
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re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#36
Posted: 6/8/06 at 9:55amThanks to those who answered my Sweeney question!
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re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#37
Posted: 6/8/06 at 5:54pmI didn't see it elsewhere on this list when I browsed through. Couldn't Be Happier from Wicked switches between 6/8, 5/8, 2/4, and 4/4.
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#38
Posted: 6/8/06 at 6:23pmAll the Wasted Time from Parade is in 6/4, but it feels more like it's in two.
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re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#39
Posted: 7/1/08 at 1:19pm
Bumping a really old thread here!
SxyMiatch states above that the time sig for "Thank Goodness" switches between 6/8, 5/8, 2/4, and 4/4. Can anyone confirm that these are the correct time sigs? And if yes, is there a specific pattern to the changes?
Thanks much!
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#40
Posted: 7/1/08 at 2:38pm
"America" is actually a simple switching between 6/8 and 3/4 thus creating a false hemiola, or a sense of 2 against 3. It is not in a complex meter.
"I like to be in a" functions as 2 beats in 6/8 while "mer-i-ca" is three in 3/4.
So really, it's just Bernstein being crazy and brilliant that makes this music sound more complicated than it is.
(edited for incorrect word - compound as apposed to complex)
Updated On: 7/1/08 at 02:38 PM
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re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#41
Posted: 7/1/08 at 7:39pm
You can think of America as being in 6/8 - broken up as:
ONE and two AND three and
FOUR FIVE SIX
"Everything's Alright" from JCSuperstar is in 5/4.
Updated On: 7/1/08 at 07:39 PM
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#42
Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:30pmI would think I Read from Passion might count?
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#43
Posted: 7/1/08 at 10:27pmThe Five Fifteen from Grey Gardens is in 7/8, I think.
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#44
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:21am
In Rainbow High from Evita the time signiture starts out at 3/4 then it changes, a lot 6/8 to 9/8 to 6/8 to 9/8 to 6/8 to 3/8 to 9/8 to 6/8 to 12/8 to 4/4.
Eva beware of the city has a section of 5/8
I'd Be Suprisingly good for you has 5/4 and 6/4
If the score wasn't hard enough now Andrew Lloyd Webber used time signitures that no one even knew existed.
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re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#45
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:42amI don't even know what the hell's going on in Molasses to Rum.
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#46
Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:54amWICKED seems like it has some odd ones
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#47
Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:45pm
Eva beware of the city has a section of 5/8
Yes, of course, who could forget "I want to BE A part of B.A., Buenos iAI-RES, big apple!"
And of course, another addition: SUPERBOY AND THE INVISIBLE GIRL from "Next to Normal" is in 11/8.
Or to make it simpler: 3 + 3 + 3 + 2.
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#48
Posted: 5/10/09 at 1:08pm"Jerry Likes My Corn" has some sections in 7/4.
re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures#49
Posted: 5/10/09 at 1:12pm
"And of course, another addition: SUPERBOY AND THE INVISIBLE GIRL from "Next to Normal" is in 11/8. "
Actually, I believe it's written as 6/8 followed by 5/8. When I watched the "music video" for Superboy and the Invisible Girl, I saw it on the sheet music.
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