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Engagement
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Scored for two altos and synthesizer (or bass, lute, bagpipe, trombone, marimba, and percussion). A piece exploring alternative rhythms. (The primary time signature is five beats of dash-dotted quarters, and a dotted eighth.
dashdotted note alternative rhythms
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Steve Hansen Smythe
I like odd rhythms. If you can dance to my favourite pieces, the chances are that you have a prime number of walking appendages. Check out my , including scores and MP3 files. Read about my . "Engagement" is one of my pieces which uses my new notation. The beat structure is most often five bunches of five sixteenths followed by a bunch of three sixteenth notes.
Song Info
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Peak #66
Peak in subgenre #18
Author
Steve Hansen Smythe
Rights
2005
Uploaded
May 29, 2013
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.3 MB 128 kbps 3:35
Story behind the song
The title is taken from an essay by I. H. Smythe about the nature of music appreciation.
Lyrics
I never got around to getting a recording of two altos singing the lyrics, and they're not so hot anyway, so perhaps I'd best let it stand as an instrumental.
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