Klarinet Archive - Posting 000260.txt from 1996/07

From: "Victor M. Wyman" <wymanvic@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Mike Moors' "signature"
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 10:00:14 -0400

I use a proportional font with my Windows based mail reader. Like some
amateur performances, the music starts together, but doesn't end together.
I'm not quite sure, but I think the lollypops are dancing to 7/16 time (if
at all).
victor
At 01:40 PM 7/12/96 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>
>--------------------------
>Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears
>
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