Steve Schwartz wrote:


Deryk Barker writes:
>
>>IMHO nobody who participated in a "rock" version of Bernstein's America
>>which took the 6/8 original and cast it into 4/4 has any claim to respect
>>from classical musicians.
>
>Actually, I dimly recall from the piano-vocal score the song's meter is
>duple, with "jazz triplets." Why, I don't know, since the rhythm is, as

Deryk points out, far better suited to 6/8.

The meter is marked 3/4 (6/8).  He frequently used that gesture and it can
be found in works like the Kaddish (with the juxtaposition implied with the
eighth notes in groups of six followed by three quarter notes) and other
works.

Karl