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Meter / Time signature changes in contemporary music

Chapter 23 - Train your tempo memory, identify the meter, time signature changes, Strawinsky, polyrhythms: strings, percussion, wind instruments, summary

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Train your tempo memory
Identify the meter
Change of meter
Strawinsky
Polyrythms strings
Percussion
Wind instruments
Summary
Train your tempo memory
  • SCHUBERT Unfinished Symphony
  • how to work out the correct tempo based on a suitable musical passage
  • how to imagine the tempo before your first upbeat
  • how to train your tempo memory
Identify the meter
  • SCHUBERT Unfinished Symphony
  • how to identify the meter
  • melody versus accompagnement
  • different layers of interpretation
Change of meter
  • STRAWINSKY Histoire du soldat
  • preliminary exercises
  • how to prepare and how to practise changes of meter
  • conducting the 3/8 a little bit bigger
Strawinsky
  • STRAWINSKY Histoire du soldat, Marche du Soldat
  • change of meter from figure 8
Polyrythms strings
  • STRAWINSKY Histoire du soldat, Marche du Soldat
  • polyrhythms from figure 10
  • violin and doublebass play an ostinato consisting of 4 quavers
  • Stravinsky builds multiple meter changes on top of this ostinato
Percussion
  • STRAWINSKY Histoire du soldat, Marche du Soldat
  • Polyrhythms from figure 10, percussion
Wind instruments
  • STRAWINSKY Histoire du soldat, Marche du Soldat
  • polyrhythms from figure 10, wind instruments
Summary
  • STRAWINSKY Histoire du soldat, Marche du Soldat
  • polyrhythms from figure 10, summary
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