JoAnn Kane's twitter page is a treasure trove of things like this. Wow, there you have it! If only all things in life could be answered in such an authoritative (and incredibly cool) way. I would think it's notated consistently in something/8 - either 6/8+5/8 or 11/8 - so as to avoid switching back and forth between eighth note and quarter note rhythmic values. Without seeing the Main Title sketch, I'm still curious to know exactly what's written by Goldsmith. While I agree with you that it plays 3/4-5/8, Doug Fake in his CAPRICORN ONE liner notes states that it's 11/8 (essentially the same thing). It's so natural for your hand to keep repeating the same pattern rather than to chronically change meters that it must be hard to not slip an extra measure in the old meter instead of changing. It's actually much easier for a musician counting in their head and following along in the music than it is for the conductor, I believe. I'm not a musician but since changing signatures and using complex signatures is hardly an extraordinary gesture, I would have thought it would be a case of that if they couldn't do it, they wouldn't be qualified to sit in the orchestra.Įspecially for the freelance Hollywood players, who are required to play complex action music after a single sight reading, that kind of thing should be second nature. I'm not a musician but since changing signatures and using compound signatures is hardly an extraordinary gesture, I would have thought it would be a case of that if they couldn't do it, they wouldn't be qualified to sit in the orchestra. How capable are professional orchestral musicians in dealing with that kind of time signature switching? Is it something they'd be familiar with and take in their stride, or would they complain and grumble and try to avoid it? It uses alternating measures of 3/4 and 5/8. In pursuit of my understanding of things compositional, can anyone enlighten me as to what time signature Jerry Goldsmith used for the beginning of the Main Title of Capricorn One? General Discussion: Time Signature - Capricorn One - Main Title FSM Board: Time Signature - Capricorn One - Main Title
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