Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: May the 5th Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 22:26:56 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 14:26:58 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="61d605ddd420898f643443c9e60d807a"; logging-data="3093840"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Y+Bk3vI42uQAGB7rApTKm" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BEzDM96k5JpUfbxh0TYaxnrE2f8= X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 250506-0, 5/6/2025), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean In-Reply-To: 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 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