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This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...
"These Are My Twisted Words" is composed in a 5 4 time signature. [9] It opens with a motorik beat from the drummer, Philip Selway, before Yorke's vocal enters. [10] [11] Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone noted a krautrock influence and likened the song to the In Rainbows track "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi". [4]
Weird Fish may refer to: Weird Fish (clothing brand) "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", a song by Radiohead from their album In Rainbows; Diversity of fish
the original name of the song "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi", by Radiohead Arpeggi, Inc., a bioinformatics startup company acquired by Gene by Gene in 2013 the plural of arpeggio
While that is a section in the article, it never seems to have been defined what an unusual time signature combination is. Double sharp 02:14, 20 September 2014 (UTC) Good point. There was a great deal of difficulty finding an acceptable definition of "unusual time signatures".
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