List of musical works in unusual time signatures

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by jader201 • 2 years ago

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jader201• 2 years ago

There is a goldmine of interesting music here, and I’ve not even scratched the surface yet, but one of my favorites so far is “A Headache And A Sixty-Fourth” [1] that has an inserted 1/64 measure every now and then, making it sound like it’s skipping.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7RUbFqJCiWU

Lammy• 2 years ago

"March of the Pigs" by Nine Inch Nails is partially in 29/8

To me it's way easier to think of that part of the song as three measures of ⅞ followed by one of ⁸⁄₈. Who wants to be counting to 29?

Source: Rock Band 3 Pro Expert drummer lol

ilamont• 2 years ago

Was this compiled by Kyle Gann? He appears in most of these very obscure time signatures.

Interesting to me are the composers with little or no formal music training yet were experimenting with unusual rhythms and signatures. Soundgarden composed Rusty Cage (19:8 in the third section) some 5 years after formation, with members rooted in west coast punk music scenes.

gilleain• 2 years ago

I see three Bjork tracks, but no Aphex Twin? I am musically very ignorant, but surprised.

Girl/boy song, Vordhosbn, ...

kazinator• 2 years ago

The "bottom numerals" don't mean much; they just indicate which note duration value is used for notating one beat.

Unsual time signature means other than 2, 3 or 4 beats in a fundamental repeating block (usually correspondign to "measure").

082349872349872• 2 years ago

These days even 3/x, 6/x, 9/x seem to be getting pretty unusual?

List of musical works in unusual time signatures

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