Sorry, but the crotchets at the start of the second part are, exactly (allowing for very slight rubaot in the first part) twice the speed of the crotchet meter of the first part. My point about the rubato in the first part is that all it does is very slightly play with the rhythm, whilst broadly maintaining a very slow but recognisable meter. There are one or two notes (it's too slow for me to listen again to count, but I don't think it's more than two) in the first part which are held for slightly longer than the meter would suggest. That's about it.Nanohedron wrote:In the playing, sure it is. As with certain ways of singing, the meter is suggested but phrasing takes the tune, as played, out of rigid meter. Instead of being accountable to the metronome, it goes by phrasing. That's what I mean by "unmetered". If there's another term for that, I don't know it; metric elasticity, perhaps?benhall.1 wrote:That version isn't unmetered.
Here's another example of the idea as sung by Iarla Ó Lionáird:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JEiuM_eHuw
Come now, that's exaggeration. There's nothing strict about it; it only approaches the meter. And yes, there's a touch of rubato, but twice the speed it is not. Not even close.benhall.1 wrote:Then, for some bizarre reason, they lay the second part, also in strict 3/4 time, but at twice the speed!
Anyway, that's how I hear it ...