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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: May the 5th
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 22:26:56 +1000
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On 6/05/2025 9:38 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
> On 5/6/2025 06:21, Daniel70 wrote:
>> On 6/05/2025 12:31 pm, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
>>> On 5/5/2025 08:14, Daniel70 wrote:
>>>> On 5/05/2025 10:56 pm, solar penguin wrote:
>>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/4/2025 21:54, Woozy Song wrote:
>>>>>>> 5/4 is Dave Brubeck Day!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm!! Dave Brubeck ..... he's O.K.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why is the 5th of April Dave Brubeck Day??
>>>>>
>>>>> Music in 5/4 time maybe?
>>>>>
>>>> That's quicker than 4/4 isn't it?? Is 5/4 a Jazz thing??
>>>
>>> Not tempo related...just 5 beats per measure instead of 4.
>>>
>> How can playing five notes/beats in a given time period, rather than 
>> four, NOT be a change in Tempo??
>>
>> Or are you suggesting Jazz could be 4/4 or 5/4 or ....??
> 
> Jazz can be 5/4, or 4/4, or 3/4, or 2/2, or 6/8 (or any other 
> meter)...just like any other style of music.
> 
> The time signature (meter) tells you two things: the top number tells 
> you how many beats in one measure (bar), the bottom number tells you 
> what kind of note is worth one beat.  When the bottom note is a 4, that 
> tells you that the quarter note (quill) is worth one beat.  So 5/4 tells 
> you that there are five beats per measure, and the quarter note (quill) 
> is worth one beat.  The time signature does not tell you how fast or 
> slow to go.
> 
> The tempo tells you how fast or slow the beat is going.  The tempo for 
> the Sousa march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" is 120 beats per 
> measure...two beats per second; the time signature is 2/2.  "Advance, 
> Australia Fair" is a little slower than that, and the time signature is 
> 4/4.
> 
Way above my knowledge, Hornplayer.

I thought, when you looked at a blank sheet of music, all the sections 
marked out represented a fixed time period and the number of notes 
between each two lines were to be played with-in that fixed time-period.
-- 
Daniel70