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June 8

Jai Paul video source?

hello so i found this apparently fan-made video of "Str8 Outta Mumbai" by Jai Paul and it appears to show clips from some sort of foreign dance routine video and i am interested as to what it may be sourced from. thank u,, ~Helicopter Llama~ 04:41, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Compound alla breve?

If you have a piece in ⁴
₄, and you wish to shift the beat from the quarter note to the half note (i.e. in two, instead of in four), you can change the time signature to ²
₂:

(I'm using accents to explicitly show the beats.)

But if you have a piece in ¹²
₁₆, and you wish to shift the beat from the dotted eighth note to the dotted quarter note (i.e. in two, instead of in four), what time signature can you write, since ⁶
₈ would not preserve the binary division of the dotted quarters?

Double sharp (talk) 06:31, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

You refer to ⁴
₄ and ²
₂, but then use different symbols in the score. That's confusing. Can you fix it? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 07:03, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Sorry. Fixed. Double sharp (talk) 08:31, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

One thing about this discussion is that although many music theorists think of 6/8 as a time signature with 2 beats per measure with the dotted quarter note getting the beat because it gives less ambiguity to the rhythm than 6 eighth note beats per measure (the latter can go with either 6/8 or 3/4 time at a slow tempo in either case,) it shows that 2 dotted quarter note beats per measure is also ambiguous; that description can fit either 6/8 (at a tempo too fast to feel the eighth note as the beat) or 12/16 (at a tempo too fast to feel the sixteenth note as the beat.) Any thoughts on this?? Georgia guy (talk) 15:04, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

I think you mean "12/16 (at a tempo too fast to feel the dotted eighth note as the beat)", but I think this just shows that even Orff's idea of writing 2/. for 6/8 is somewhat broken, depending on when exactly in the hierarchy of notes we have the ternary division. 6/8 would have the hierarchy . → . → → , while 12/16 has . → . → . → instead. Double sharp (talk) 02:35, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

1956 film 'SAFARI' - Victor Mature, Vivien Leigh

Hi. Can anyone tell me the name of the theme tune for this film please? Thank you. Doug Barrett — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.102.83.147 (talk) 09:11, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

I vaguely remember seeing this, but can't remember much about the music; however the BFI website mentions a song called "We're on Safari" written by William Alwyn with lyrics by Paddy Roberts which might help you (or not, as the case may be). FlowerpotmaN·(t) 13:32, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Corroborated here: "We're on Safari", lyrics by Paddy Roberts, a "trite and inappropriate title song". PS. It was Janet Leigh, not Vivien Leigh. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 23:19, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

... and now you put the sound of screeching strings in my head. ---Sluzzelin talk 23:27, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Anything I can do to keep Bernard Herrmann's mellifluous music in the memory of musicophiles, I will do. But do yourself a favour and listen to the score of Vertigo. Preferably while entwined with another human being of an appropriate age. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 07:17, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

• And if anyone wants to read about the film, we have an article Safari (1956 film). DuncanHill (talk) 23:24, 8 June 2016 (UTC)