On 29 Sep 2007 at 21:55, John Howell wrote: > At 3:21 PM -0400 9/29/07, David W. Fenton wrote: > >On 29 Sep 2007 at 13:45, John Howell wrote: > > > >> The > >> 5/4 Tchaikovsky waltz is written in 5/4, but is consistently 2 + 3 > >> beats. > > > >It's been a long time since I looked at the score, but in my head, I > >hear: > > > >||: 3 + 2 | 2 + 3 :|| > > > >Am I misremembering the theme entirely? > > You may be entirely correct. I don't have the score at hand, either. > I do remember that it's regular, but that might be its regularity. > Thanks! I may be misremembering it through Peter Nero's adaptation > of Richard Rodgers' "Dancing On The Ceiling" from the mid-'60s.
Having looked at the score, I would say that I think the score is wrong (it's bowed as 2+3 quite regularly -- I can only hear the triplet as upbeat of 3, not as downbeat of 3). This is a weird position for a musicologist to take, but so be it. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
