B'way songs in unusual time signatures — Page 2

#26

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:34pm

*bump*

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#27

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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

#28

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:47pm

a measure of music in titanic is in 1/4. ALot of other songs are in 9/8

#29

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:51pm

Lost Souls in Woman in White is 7/8 , I think.

#30

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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.

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#31

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/7/06 at 9:25pm

"Now I've Seen You" -- Honk ... In 12/6 if I remember correctly.

#32

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/7/06 at 9:52pm

I 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.

#33

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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

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Updated On: 6/7/06 at 11:23 PM

#34

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/7/06 at 11:26pm

Hm, a time signature of 12/6 is not possible. 12/8 perhaps?

~Steven

#35

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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.






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#36

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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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#37

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/8/06 at 9:55am

Thanks to those who answered my Sweeney question!

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#38

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/8/06 at 5:54pm

I 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.

#39

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 6/8/06 at 6:23pm

All the Wasted Time from Parade is in 6/4, but it feels more like it's in two.

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#40

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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!

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#41

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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

#42

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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

#43

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 7/1/08 at 8:30pm

I would think I Read from Passion might count?

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#44

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 7/1/08 at 10:27pm

The Five Fifteen from Grey Gardens is in 7/8, I think.

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#45

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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.

#46

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:42am

I don't even know what the hell's going on in Molasses to Rum.

#47

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 7/2/08 at 1:54am

WICKED seems like it has some odd ones

#48

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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.

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#49

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

Posted: 5/10/09 at 1:08pm

"Jerry Likes My Corn" has some sections in 7/4.

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#50

re: B'way songs in unusual time signatures

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.