Klarinet Archive - Posting 000242.txt from 1996/07

From: Douglas Sears <dsears@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Mike Moors' "signature"
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 16:40:45 -0400

On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Neil Leupold wrote:

> > Mike Moors
> >
> > | | |
> > ____|\__|_________|\___|___________|___|____________|\_|____________|__|__
> > ____|/__|________=__|__|____O______|___|___=________|__|___|________|__|__
> > ___/|___|___|________|__|___|______=____|__|____=____|__|___|_______=___|__
> > __|_/_\_|___|_______=___|___|___________|__|___|____=___|___|___________|__
> > ___|/__|___|___________|___|___________|__|___|________|__O____________|__
> > / O |
mdmoors.northland.lib.mi.us
>
> This is pretty cool. It's Mike Moors' email signature. But the excerpt
> itself has no TIME signature. Is it an actual quote from something?
> Something in 2.5 / 4 time?

I would call it 5/8 (although Charles Ives has written 3 1/2 over 4 in a
similar case). The Bulgarians have a folk-dance in a very fast 5/8
called paidushko, with two strong beats per measure: 1 2 1 2 3.

--Doug

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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears