Septuple time

Here’s a series of songs with seven beats to the bar:

The Beatles, “All You Need Is Love” (the verses only, the chorus seems to be in 4/4):

Rather more frantically, “Mother”, an early song by The Police:

On a different plane, the chorus “Old Joe Has Gone Fishing” from Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes:

Probably even more famous than “All You Need Is Love” (and qualifies better for this list since it is mostly in 7/4) – “Money” by Pink Floyd:

If you watch none of the others, do watch Dave Brubeck’s joyous “Unsquare Dance”:

One thought on “Septuple time

  1. (Bit further on now.) It’s convincing in some ways of a society that is uneducated, tradition-bound and insular, and it isn’t bugging me anymore – so that’s good.

    Still, they formed new terms for time to better suit their circumstances, I’d’ve expected new terms or some qualifiers for dark, cold, and maybe also warm.

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