Examples of Triple Metre in Contemporary Pop Music
In contemporary pop traditions (Soul, Rap, R&B, Rock) triple metre is much less common but examples do exist. The Beatles' provide four examples entirely or in part triple metre: "Norwegian Wood," "She's Leaving Home," the verses (but not the chorus) of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" from the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, as well as "I Me Mine" from 1970 album Let It Be. Numerous songs by Queen have been in triple meter, most often in 6/8- granted 6/8 is actually a form of compound duple meter, not triple (such as We Are The Champions, I'm in Love with My Car and Somebody to Love). A more recent example of triple metre in contemporary pop is the 1992 Toad the Wet Sprocket single, "Walk on the Ocean". Manic Depression from the 1967 album, Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix, "My Name Is Jonas" from Weezer's 1994 album, Weezer (Blue Album) and "Viking Death March" from Billy Talent's 2012 album, Dead Silence are rare up-tempo hard rock examples.
In film music, the score to Peter Pan by James Newton Howard is remarkable in that it is almost entirely written in triple meter.
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