<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Adam, </div><div><br></div><div>You must include Rick James' "Super Freak" on your list. The song is entirely built on a single riff except for a brief 6 bar section, which begins with the lyric "She's alright." The last bar of that section, where Mr. James sings "He-hey hey hey hey," is a bar of five. Superfreaky!</div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>Brian</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; ">_________________</span></div><div>Brian Kane</div><div><div>Assistant Professor</div><div>Department of Music</div><div>Yale University</div><div>206 Stoeckel Hall</div><div>(203) 432-6730</div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hello all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm collecting examples of popular songs in which the measure preceding a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">sectional transition is extended or truncated by a small duration, such as a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">beat or half beat. An example that comes to mind is Mercyful Fate's "A<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dangerous Meeting," where the measure preceding the third verse is a half beat<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">shorter than usual. I'd appreciate suggestions from any genre of popular music.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Adam J. Kolek<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Doctoral Candidate<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">University of Massachusetts Amherst<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Smt-talk mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org">http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@societymusictheory.org</a><br>http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org<br></div></div><br></body></html>