Tricky timing
Tom Service on the fascination of music written in unusual time signatures.
Two, three and four beats in a bar are pretty standard in music. But what happens when a composer decides to go with 7 or 5 or 13 as the underlying structure? And why would they do that?
Tom Service talks to composer Anna Meredith and conductor Martyn Brabbins about the fascination and challenge of the off-beat beat.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67
Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra.- Hyperion.
- CDS44301/5.
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Donna Summer
I Feel Love
- MERCURY.
- 526-217 2.
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John Philip Sousa
The Liberty bell - march
Performer: Eastman Wind Ensemble.- Mercury.
- SACD 475 6182.
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脡mile Waldteufel
Les Patineurs [The skaters] - waltz Op.183
Conductor: Sir Charles Groves. Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra.- Denon.
- CO73674.
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Lalo Schifrin
Mission Impossible
Performer: Ensemble Triptikh.- Ad Vitam Records.
- AV200615D.
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Christopher Tye
In nomine (Trust) for 5 instruments
Performer: The Newberry Consort.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- hm-1106.
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Dave Brubeck
Unsquare Dance
Performer: Dave Brubeck.- CBS.
- CDCBS-32046.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony no. 41 in C major K.551 (Jupiter)
Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer. Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra.- Hungaroton.
- HCD12982.
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Gustav Holst
The Planets - suite Op.32
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.- EMI.
- 0946 369690 2 2.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Sonata no. 1 in C minor Op.4 for piano
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- Warner.
- 5099923228856.
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George Frideric Handel
Orlando - opera in 3 acts
Conductor: Bernard Labadie. Performer: Vivica Genaux. Performer: Les Violons du Roy.- Warner.
- 0724354573750.
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Traditional
Paidushko
Performer: La Nef.- Atma.
- ACD22390.
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Paul Desmond
Take five
Performer: The Dave Brubeck Quartet.- Polygram.
- 819 882-2.
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Juan de Anchieta
Con amores, la mi madre for 4 voices [Cancionero de Palacio, c.1505-20]
Performer: Tenebrae.- Signum.
- SIGCD903.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op.74 (Pathetique)
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis. Performer: Musica 脝terna Orchestra.- Sony.
- 8898 5404352.
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Frank Zappa
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
Performer: Frank Zappa.- Rykodisc.
- RCD-80519.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird - ballet
Conductor: Andris Nelsons. Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.- Orfeo.
- C804101A.
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Leonard Bernstein
Candide - comic operetta in 2 acts
Performer: Fleur Mino. Performer: Jennifer Hardy. Performer: Juan Carlos Echeverry. Performer: Kevin Amos.- Klarthe.
- KLA030D.
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Ron Jarzombek
A headache and a sixty-fourth
Performer: Ron Jarzombek.- Mr. Kitty Records.
- MK 1302.
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x Meshuggah
Nuclear Blast 鈥- NB 336-2
Performer: x Meshuggah.- Nuclear Blast.
- NB 336-2.
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Alan Hawkshaw
Countdown Theme
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Anna Meredith
Orlok
Performer: Anna Meredith.- Moshi Moshi.
- MOSHI161.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Performer: Mariinsky Orchestra.- Philips.
- 4680352.
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Brian Ferneyhough
La Terre est un homme for orchestra
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Performer: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra.- NMC.
- NMCD231.
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Gyorgy Ligeti
Poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes [1962]
Performer: Aurora Orchestra.- Warner.
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