Re: [microsound] Re: 4/4's for neanderthals

[soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx]

Err, yeah...but it's in 4 bar phrases...that's what I meant.
To me the 4 bar phrase is just as bad as 4/4...and even more prominent.  

I guess actually looking at childrens music there are a lot of
waltzes...it's all dance music from the 18th/19th century.  I think my
complaint is more this strict metrical thing...why is everything in one
meter instead of changing.  

I think the advantage to using a fixed meter is that an audience can
tell where the downbeat is...thus there can be easy foresight into what
will happen next, which part is more important than the other.  
This can be useful but I think way too many musicians/composers/whatever 
rely on having something the audience already knows how to listen to...


This isn't to say open rhythm is beter than fixed...just that most of
the variations with fixed meter have been used and there's not much
experimentation going on anymore...it seems like the experimentation
gets stuck in a single dimension, in general electronic music focuses on
the "sounds", even the complex rhythmic stuff is more just "complex
rhythm", no real noticable structure to it...

s


On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:37:50AM -0400, Jonathan Hughes wrote:
> on 10/24/02 12:17 AM, soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx at
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> > something natural about 4/4?  Try the happy birthday song, old
> > mcdonalds, etc...everything we westerners grew up with is in 4/4
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> Happy Birthday is in 3/4
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