Although 7.5/16 may not be a normal time signature, at least it uses numbers. I know Sorabji came up with some pretty weird crap, he's the only composer I've ever seen use fractions in his time signatures, but what does he mean when there are roman numerals instead of numbers? In a few places, the signature changes to something like I/VIII, which I can only assume means 1/8 time. If that's what it means, however, why write it with roman numerals? Besides, when it's like that the music seems to be in standard common time, with sixty-four sixteenths to a measure. Could it be that he prided himself on his strange time signatures so much that he couldn't bear to write 4/4?
2007-01-15
13:03:10
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