Continuing my occasional series of blogs1where I note the time signature used in pieces, it is time to look at the music of Jasmine Myra. In instrumental music, the use of 34 time is far more prevalent than it is in vocal music and so JM has pieces in 3, pieces in 4, and there's even one piece in both, though obviously not at the same time*. As I noted before, my favourite piece "Knowingness"2 begins in 34 time then moves to 44 for the second half.
Today her music was again playing in my headphones when suddenly I noticed
that the piece "Words left unspoken" (written about not being able to part
with her grandmother who died in hospital during the Covid-19 lockdown) is
in 54 time - or
at least, I think it is. It's very difficult to establish where the 'one'
is, and without this, one can't determine the rhythm properly. Normally the
advice given is to listen to the drums, and if that doesn't work, then
listen to the bass, as one of these instruments will emphasize the first
beat of each bar. In the studio recording of this piece, the string quartet's lines do not start on the one.
* Although this is possible - it's called a '3 against 4 polyrhythm'. I've done it in my songs a few times, but only for a few bars at a time, having six crotchet triplets in a bar of 44
Internal links
[1] 1686
[2] 1742
| Title | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | The Band | Randy Newman, The Band | |
| 143 | Wok | Cooking | |
| 303 | Sumptuous Sunday | Cooking, Slow cooker | |
| 518 | Inside the DOCU program (1) | Programming, Delphi | |
| 776 | Matching a computer language to the problems it needs to solve | Programming | |
| 1357 | Cold Feet, series 9 | TV series, Cold feet | |
| 1440 | Sleeping even more deeply | CPAP, Binaural beats, Sleep |
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