[Crystal:]
>>> There's also "Mars, the Bringer of War", the first movement from
>>>Holst's "The Planets" suite; I think it's quite well known now.
>>> Not sure if it's public domain - is that important, for any reason?<<
>
>I have a little book that I sell to the classes I teach, and I don't want to
>break any rules.
Oh - I see; I didn't think of that.
>I like my examples to be something simple the class can
>sing, but I think 5/4 falls outside that realm.
I probably half-overlooked the "song" bit, too. But to the extent that I
focused on that, I half-thought to myself that I couldn't think of any *songs*
in 5/4 time - so I thought hearing non-song music in 5/4 time might impart the
feel of it, and be of some use anyway.
I didn't know about the 5/4 song from Jesus Christ Superstar, or the ones
from Sting and "Mission Impossible", not being well up on popular culture.
There *is*, oddly enough, a song in Jehovah's Witnesses' songbook in 5/4 time
throughout. Quite strange, but quite singable, too - and it sounds like it
*belongs* in 5/4, not in some other metre bent into 5/4. (I'm not a Witness -
but I do happen to have a copy of the songbook.)
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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