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Thread #62521 Message #1513071
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
30-Jun-05 - 03:54 AM
Thread Name: Songs in 5/4 time
Subject: RE: Songs in 5/4 time
Zweifacker sounds like doublefucker for German ears, it is "Zwiefacher" = double one; after every two bars the metrum changes |:1/2 1/2 1/3 1/3:|
Most famous German example of 5/4 is Prinz Eugen. The song was written after the storming of Belgrad (in the Balkans) during the Turkish wars. The stress changes depending on the flow of the text, mostly 12 123 or 123 12, sometimes 112 12