Re: Polymetric(?) time signature

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019, Hans Åberg wrote:

> > I have a piece of music where measures have 4/4 time and 5/4 and it looks
> > like this:
> >
> > {
> >  \time 4/4
> >  c4 c c c
> >  \time 5/4
> >  c c c c c
> >  \time 4/4
> >  c c c c
> >  \time 5/4
> >  c c c c c
> > }
> > and the pattern goes on like that to the very end of piece.
>
> If it is regular like that, you might check if should be in 9/4, which 
> is a common time signature.

It's a common time signature if 9/4 is subdivided as 3 * 3/4. A regular 
alternation of different time signatures isn't that uncommon either.

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MT