Re: May the 5th

On 06/05/2025 13:26, Daniel70 wrote:

On 6/05/2025 9:38 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:

On 5/6/2025 06:21, Daniel70 wrote:

On 6/05/2025 12:31 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:

On 5/5/2025 08:14, Daniel70 wrote:

On 5/05/2025 10:56 pm, solar penguin wrote:

Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:

On 5/4/2025 21:54, Woozy Song wrote:

5/4 is Dave Brubeck Day!

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Hmm!! Dave Brubeck ..... he's O.K.
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Why is the 5th of April Dave Brubeck Day??

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Music in 5/4 time maybe?
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That's quicker than 4/4 isn't it?? Is 5/4 a Jazz thing??

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Not tempo related...just 5 beats per measure instead of 4.
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How can playing five notes/beats in a given time period, rather than four, NOT be a change in Tempo??
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Or are you suggesting Jazz could be 4/4 or 5/4 or ....??

 Jazz can be 5/4, or 4/4, or 3/4, or 2/2, or 6/8 (or any other meter)...just like any other style of music.
 The time signature (meter) tells you two things: the top number tells you how many beats in one measure (bar), the bottom number tells you what kind of note is worth one beat.  When the bottom note is a 4, that tells you that the quarter note (quill) is worth one beat.  So 5/4 tells you that there are five beats per measure, and the quarter note (quill) is worth one beat.  The time signature does not tell you how fast or slow to go.
 The tempo tells you how fast or slow the beat is going.  The tempo for the Sousa march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" is 120 beats per measure...two beats per second; the time signature is 2/2.  "Advance, Australia Fair" is a little slower than that, and the time signature is 4/4.
 

Way above my knowledge, Hornplayer.
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I thought, when you looked at a blank sheet of music, all the sections marked out represented a fixed time period and the number of notes between each two lines were to be played with-in that fixed time-period.

It's more complicated than that as above- sometimes much more. But 5/4
 (American notation) id Dave Brubeck day because possibly his most famously
 known and most often played piece, "Take Five," is in 5/4 time.
But such shenanigans are not limited to Jazz. Most of Genesis' "Dance on a
 Volcano" (from the "Trick of the Tail" album) is in 7/8 time. And "Turn it
 On Again" is in 13/8 - as is the Stranglers' "Golden Brown".
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