Crystal: Darcy's suggestion of "Everything's All Right" strikes me as perfect. It's Broadway material, so your actors can relate to it as part of real life. It has a regular 3+2 meter so they can easiley get into the swing of it (5/4 jazz waltz) and absorb the dual meter concept that's needed for meters in 5 and 7, and you don't need to burden them with the knowledge that a song could also be in 2+3 or, as in the Tchaikovsky symphony, alternate between 3+2 and 2+3.
Go for it! John (P.S. When Peter Nero was recording his very imaginative variations on classical tunes in the 1960s, one of the best was the Tchaikovsky theme which morphed into Rodgers & Hart's "Dancing on the Ceiling." Which sounds perfectly natural in 5/4 time!) John John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:John.Howell@;vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
