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Re: swung eighths, syncopated

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-06-26 01:43

Chris P wrote:

> Karl wrote:
>
> "But then you have composers like Andrew Lloyd Webber writing
> "Do You Hear the People Sing" in the dotted rhythm with the
> instruction at the top of the song to play and sing the dotted
> figures with triplet rhythm (i.e. swing but without the accent
> shift)."
>
> That's actually written by Claude-Michel Schonberg

Ah! Yes, I knew that. Brain cramp.

> - it's more
> of a 6/8 march if anything, or even a folk song as a lot of
> folk songs are in 6/8.
>
Well, I know, but why not write it in 12/8? It really isn't connected to Philip's original question, because there's absolutely no "swing" or jazz feeling about it. But it does sort of go to the issue Philip raises later of not writing things as the composer or arranger wants them to be performed.

Karl

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