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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.
Federico Mompou used some unusual ways of indicating time signatures in his piano music. In many cases he uses just a single number, e.g. "3", rather than, say, 3 over 4. In many cases he puts the time signature (whether 1 or 2 numbers) not on the staves but in the white space between them, or above or below the stave where there's only one stave.
(e.g. you can write out 12/8 as a load of triplets in 4/4) The more convoluted a piece of music's rhythms get, the more possible ways there are to think of its time signature. One man's "syncopated cross-rhythm in 4/4" is where another man decides that said syncopation *IS* the beat and defines the time signature.
(2003) "She's My Rushmore" by Every Time I Die - alternates with 9/8 and 4/4. (2002) "Gravity Eyelids" by Porcupine Tree - the second half of the instrumental part starting at 5:12 is partially in 10/8 timing as well as a few other time signatures. (2005) "Music for a Nurse" by Oceansize (2003) "III Ways to Epica" by Kamelot
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 ...
Time signatures removed: 4; Time signatures moved: 14; New PEIS: 2026886; PEIS reduction: 17066; Note: Four time signatures involved required creating new sections, thus requiring one instance of {{time signature}}. One time signature has a numerator above 19 and thus the full time signature must still be stated. Revision 1158413555. Pieces ...
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It is a short step from accepting 4/4 (and not 11/4) as the time signature of that Passacaglia to insisting that any single occurrence of a bar with some odd time signature also belongs in the list. The emphasis here is clearly on the manner of notation, not the sound of the music (see also the Telemann example from the so-called "Gulliver ...