GrahamA lot of us Stanford-types are fans of Vienna Teng. If you're in the area, she's performing in San Francisco this Friday and Saturday (details). Here are some of her songs you can dance to:
Waltzes:
- Anna Rose (121 bpm) - Amazon, full preview on imeem
A lovely cross-step. - Between (135 bpm) - Amazon, full preview on imeem
Blue Caravan (136 bpm) - Amazon, full preview on last.fm
A couple in-between tempo waltzes. You might slow "Between" down a tad for cross-step, or just deal with it (especially if you want to keep the title accurate). "Blue Caravan" might sound good sped up slightly to rotary tempo. I haven't actually danced to it yet. - Recessional (145 bpm, sort of) - Amazon, full preview on last.fm
The tempo is approximate because it has a lot of fermatas and ritards and tricky things like that. Beautiful song, and a good challenge for paying attention to the music. - Drought (157 bpm) - Amazon, full preview on imeem
An honest-to-goodness rotary waltz.
Rhumba:
- Unwritten Letter (140 bpm) - Amazon
Not being a rhumba-er myself, I'm taking this one on faith. :-)
In addition to the Amazon links above, some (but not all) of her albums are available on eMusic.
3 comments:
Did you ever figure out what time "Harbor" is in?
Yep, it's in 5/8. You can get sheet music for it here.
Cool! I was just about to say that on her website, it says it's in 7/4 and 5/4:
Harbor: A complicated (musically) song in odd time signatures - 7/4, 5/4, etc. It's obviously about those who have loved ones far away. She wrote it only a couple weeks before the Warm Strangers session and was sort of surprised it made it on the album.
...but I guess the sheet music is definitive!
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