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Trying to come up with ways to indicate how stressed syllables in lyrics can go against the prevailing meter, without relying on music notation. Like, does this make sense? Trying to show how the text and melody strongly implies 3/4 while the underlying music is in 4/4.
TOSS your dirty
SHOES in your
WASHing machine
HEART
TOSS your dirty SHOES
in my WASHing ma-
chine HEART
Makes sense in the 4/4 version, I feel like i really have to think about it in the 3/4 version. In 3/4 i read the first 3 lines as dotted quarters followed by 3 8th notes
I've found that adding the html <br/> tag at the ends of lines allows me to have spacing without it having to be like the bigger spacing of Markdown
I just posted something you may be interested in: https://cohost.org/graham/post/158428-word-rhythm-tools
Specifically, I think that the crux of making something feel 4/4 versus 3/4 is leaning on words whose rhythms "span a whole measure when each syllable is given a quarter note" and whose rhythms get the stressed syllable on 1.
Using Primus Paeons can do that in 4, while Dactyls can do so in 3. I don't think you'd need more than a measure or two of them here and there, but I think the effect would be grounding to that time signature. To mess with things, you'd only need to mess with where the words end (a natural break) and mess with their rhythms so the stressed syllables are regularly not on the start of the measure
Oh wow that's super cool!! Reminds me of the Pentametron bot that would find tweets that happened to be in iambic pentameter https://twitter.com/pentametron
