Time signature

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Time signatures in Zappa's works

• The Deathless Horsie - 5/4 ^[2]
• Don't Eat The Yellow Snow‎ - 7/4
• Watermelon In Easter Hay - 9/4 (4/4 + 5/4) ^[2]
• 9/8 Objects‎ - 9/8 ^[1]
• Outside Now‎ - 11/8 (6/8 + 5/8)
• T'Mershi Duween‎ - the main theme is in 23/24 ^[1]
• Five-Five-FIVE - repeated sequence of 5/8 + 5/8 + 5/4 ^[2]
• Son Of Suzy Creamcheese‎ - repeated sequence of (4+4+4+4)/4 + (8+9)/8 + (8+9+8+9+8+9)/8 + (8+4+5+6)/8 ^[3]

See Also

• wikipedia:Time signature
• wikipedia:List of musical works in unusual time signatures
• wikipedia:List of musical works with unusual time signature combinations
• David Kaplowitz's Odd Time Page

Notes

1. From the EIHN liner notes.
2. From The Frank Zappa Guitar Book
3. "It's four bars of 4/4, one bar 8/8, one bar of 9/8 – OK? And then it goes 8/8, 9/8, 8/8, 9/8, 8/8, 9/8, then it goes 8/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, and back into 4/4 again." — Frank Zappa, Frank Kofsky interviews FZ, 1969.

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