Christopher Ambler wrote:
>
> > "Take five", by David Brubeck is an example. I sounds like a fairly
> >straight-forward and engaging tune, but it's written in seven/fifths time
> >and can only be comfortably played in E-flat, on the piano keyboard. Normal
> >listeners have no problem listening and pretending to understand it
> >however. The appearance of normalacy may be deceptive.
>
> Point of clarification - "Take Five" is in 5/4 time, not 7/5. Indeed, you
> cannot have a time signature of x/[any number] where [any number] is
> not a power of 2 without bending the rules in a very painful way.
>
> Christopher
>
Additional clarification: "Take Five" was written by Paul Desmond, a
sax player. It can be played comfortably (providing you have the
requisite keytboard technique) in almost any key.
AFAIK, this has nothing to do with the business at hand.
Dan Steinberg
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