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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..."
"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...
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.*
"...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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