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Re: Re "Odd Meters": some notes on the weird meters of Kate Bush

From: jsd@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (You know darn well that they're just manipulating you)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 90 09:36:14 -0500
Subject: Re: Re "Odd Meters": some notes on the weird meters of Kate Bush
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Organization: The Flip Side Of Now
References: <9002130135.AA20462@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jsd@gaffa.UUCP (Jon Drukman)

In article <9002130135.AA20462@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> IED0DXM@OAC.UCLA.EDU writes:
> Sat In Your Lap (3/4, with choruses in 4/4 and 2/4)

Are you sure it isn't 12/8 and 10/8?  It sure is hard to count those
verses as "one two three."  Besides, I recall seeing the sheet music
somewhere and I think it had somehting more exotic...

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