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hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: June 23 2005, 22:09 Always something new to be discovered in "Incantations". I must be a cloth-eared nincompoop for not noticing these things before. I just now noticed that the vibraphone section ("Long Bells") in Side 4 is not always in 11/8 meter (6/8 , 5/8, over and over. There's some 4-beat measures instead of 5 beat measures mixed in there, too. So intricate.... Is there any sort of in-depth analysis of "Incantations" available like there is for "Ommadawn" and "Amarok"? -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: June 24 2005, 17:24 Well, I got pretty much all of the irregularities, on all four parts on Incantations, pinned down, not at my first listening of that [because I'm not a wizard!! ], but by the third run-through or so. . I made a kind-of list of all of them. It's not an analysis, because it doesn't feature time references and things like that - only headings from the Amarok Player. Plus, it's in Italian - it'd need a translation. And translating from Italian to English is, from my own experience, much harder than the other way 'round. If I get some requests, I may get around to tidy up a bit my scribbled list, and post it here. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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