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This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16. [1]
The conventions of musical notation typically allow for more than one written representation of a particular piece. The chosen time signature largely depends upon musical context, personal taste of the composer or transcriber, and the graphic layout on the written page. Frequently, published editions were written in a specific time signature to visually signify the tempo for slow movements in symphonies, sonatas, and concerti.
A perfectly consistent unusual metrical pattern may be notated in a more familiar time signature that does not correspond to it. For example, the Passacaglia from Britten's opera Peter Grimes consists of variations over a recurring bass line eleven beats in length but is notated in ordinary 4
4 time, with each variation lasting 2+3⁄4 bars, and therefore commencing each time one crotchet earlier in the bar than the preceding one. [2]
Time signatures that group nine beats into 3+3+3 are very common in music. This section only lists other groupings, such as 2+3+2+2.
Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With is very nicely in 11/8 which fits the music and Adrian's particularly upbeat American take on that's life! that's fate! and c'est la vie.
Mario Kart 64 ... by Kenta Nagata, at the race results screen: 11/8
"Trapped in the Wake of a Dream", for example, boasts verses written in 17/8, choruses in 11/8 and a bridge that mixes both time signatures
Trent Reznor certainly isn't inexperienced when it comes to odd time signatures – "The Becoming" kicks off in 13/8 [...] The first verse, a number of sections in the bridge and the guitar solo in "Keep It Greasy" are counted in the head-scratching signature of 19/16, while the second verse takes things up a notch by going to 21/16.
(aka Lauft (Alt), Psalter, Psalter (slow), 13/8, Psalter (5 May 1994), Psalter)
The working title for [Song for Melan and Rafik] was "Forty-Two," because it's actually in the unusual time signature of 42/16 [...] I think if you worked [Entertain Me] out it would be in a time signature of 256/32. There is a melody that is grouped in 35/16 that repeats seven times and then resets. [...] [To Negate is] in the same key as "To Love," but in a different mode—an odd, Armenian mode—and in the time signature of 13/8.
Let me give you the subdivision here, it's: 3-3-2-2-2-1-2-2-2. [...] That's the name of the piece.
Peaking at 269 BPM and weaving in and out of a maddening 29/8 time signature, it's as ballistic as Reznor has ever been.
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4, but this is completely split up into more unusual sub-groupings: It's 5+5+3+5+5+4+5. [...] The thirty-five beat cycle [of Nairian Odyssey] is generally divided up into a 6
4, a 5
16, and 3
8.
"SOAM's" complex improv segment is notorious for its time signature, which involves three sections of eight eighth-notes and then a fourth section with nine eighth-notes in a steady pulse (listen to Fishman's hi-hat)
Bacharach was now calling the shots, and anyone covering this tune after it became a monster hit would grudgingly have to switch from 5/4 to 4/4 and 7/8.
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4 or 7
8. The stress pattern can be 2+2+3, 3+2+2, or occasionally 2+3+2, although a survey of certain forms of mostly American popular music suggests that 2+2+3 is the most common among these three in these styles.
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