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Changing Meters

These exercises consist -
     1. in changing the meters of existing songs -
          (a) from 4/4 to either 3/4 or 6/8, or to both,
          (b) from either 3/4 or 6/8 to 4/4,.
          (c) a combination of the 2 preceding processes.
     2. Specific instructions will be placed before each melody (or group of melodies).
     3. Refer back to thepreceding examplesif you do not remember how these changes are made.




     Change the original 4/4 to 3/4 -
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Polly Wolly Doodle
Oh, When The Saints
Ta-ra-ra Boom Di-ay

     Change the original 4/4 to 3/4 and to 6/8 -
She'll be Comin' Round The Mountain

     Change the original 3/4 to 4/4 -
Clementine
La Cucaracha
          We'll see to thesyncopationslater.

     Change the original 6/8 to 4/4 -
Carnival Of Venice
Skaters' Waltz

     Change the original 6/8 to 4/4, and then from 4/4 to 3/4 -
Mexican Hat Dance
La Raspa

     Each of the 3 songs listed below has 2 neighboring small ternary levels.
Down In The Valley
Beautiful Dreamer(Stephen Foster)
Dors, mon petit(a French lullaby)
          1. Restore each song to its fundamental binary version, starting with the smallest ternary level.
          2. If necessary, adjust note values so that everyLevel -1measure is a bar of 4/4.
          3. Then, using the 4/4 bar atLevel -1as a point of reference,
               determine which songs should be written in 9/16 (with Ternary Levels-4-3and-2-1),
                    and which in 9/8 (with Ternary Levels-3-2and-1 0).

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