The most famous tune in 5/4 time.

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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
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    The most famous tune in 5/4 time.

    Any suggestions for the most famous tune in 5/4 time?
    I know what my answer would be, but ...
  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
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    #2
    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
    Any suggestions for the most famous tune in 5/4 time?
    I know what my answer would be, but ...
    Isn't the second movement from Tchaik's 6th in 5/4 but sounding like a waltz? I guess that's the most familiar...
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Bryn
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      • Mar 2007
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      #3
      "Take Five" is a jazz piece written by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album "Time Out". Recorded at Columbia's 30th St...

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
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        • Nov 2010
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        #4
        Neither of those.

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        • EdgeleyRob
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          • Nov 2010
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          #5
          Mission impossible TV series theme ?

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          • MrGongGong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 18357

            #6
            No contest methinks
            though Mission Impossible comes a close second
            with Holst in third place IMV (nothing to do with quality just "most famous")




            isn't all in 5

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            • Bryn
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              • Mar 2007
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              #7
              Mission impossible TV series theme ?
              By which you mean Lalo Schifrin's Escape?

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              • Pabmusic
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                • May 2011
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                #8
                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                Isn't the second movement from Tchaik's 6th in 5/4 but sounding like a waltz? I guess that's the most familiar...
                Yes it is. The Tchaikovsky movement was also the first 'odd time" piece to become well known, a real curiosity that spawned imitators (Elgar wrote an aria in 7/4 in Caractacus, for instance). I think it's so good because Peter Ilyich varies the stress, almost bar-by-bar, between 3-2 and 2-3 - something that most other 5/4 movements that I've encountered don't do.

                Perhaps the next-best known 5/4 movement is an earlier one, the second movement of Borodin's reconstructed Third Symphony.*



                Du-oh! This isn't right. It must be Take Five!
                Last edited by Pabmusic; 18-04-12, 23:24.

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                • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20570

                  #9
                  Keep trying.
                  A hint: most people think of it as being in 3/4 time.

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                  • kernelbogey
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                    • Nov 2010
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                    Keep trying.
                    A hint: most people think of it as being in 3/4 time.
                    Herr Alpensinfonie -

                    Ach! Du Lieber! It's not An der schoenen blauen Donau, is it?

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
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                      • Sep 2011
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                      #11
                      Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                      It's not An der schoenen blauen Donau, is it?
                      Now that's what I call "rubato"!
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • vinteuil
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                        • Nov 2010
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                        #12
                        ... doesn't one of the movements of Pictures at an Exhibition have a rare time signature?


                        EDIT - the Promenade : wiki says - Meter: originally 11/4. Published editions alternate 5/4 and 6/4.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26538

                          #13
                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          Now that's what I call "rubato"!


                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • Hornspieler

                            #14
                            Dave Brubeck: "Take Five" is known and recognised by millions throughout the world.



                            HS

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                            • doversoul1
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                              • Dec 2010
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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Hornspieler View Post
                              Dave Brubeck: "Take Five" is known and recognised by millions throughout the world.



                              HS
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