The first known use of it in Western music occurs in a 16th-century piece for viols by Christopher Tye, called "Trust".
The first known use of it in Western music occurs in a 16th-century piece for viols by Christopher Tye, called "Trust". Some three centuries later, it was used in the third movement of Chopin's first piano sonata, and then in the second movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique ["pa-tay-TEAK"] symphony, Gustav Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War", and Lalo Shiffrin's theme from "Mission: Impossible". FTP what odd time signature do these works share with Paul Desmond's 1959 hit for the Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Take Five"?
The first known use of it in Western music occurs in a 16th-century piece for viols by Christopher Tye, called "Trust".
{5/4} ({five four}ths) time