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Thread #154859 Message #3637452
Posted By: Jack Campin
28-Jun-14 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: want to find tunes in odd time signature
Subject: RE: Tune Req: want to find tunes in odd time signature
While this isn't exactly a matter of time signature, a few of Conlon Nancarrow's player piano pieces put two voices against each other related by irrational ratios - instead of mere triplets, he has square-root-of-2-plets.
Study no. 33
Kyle Gann on Nancarrow
how to do human performances of Nancarrow
That isn't exactly a tune and it would take a lot of mandolins to play it.
More from the art music world...
Sing along with Brian Ferneyhough in "Bone Alphabet"
mindboggling score
finished performance (bloody hell, he's MEMORIZED it???)