# Can you help me find tunes with this meter?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 12, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-tunes-with-this-meter/344127 "2006-02-12T18:20:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-tunes-with-this-meter/344127/1 "2006-02-12T18:20:14Z")

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I’ve been looking for tunes which match the meter 87 87 66 66 7. Probably the best known which fits it is “Ein Feste Burg”

But I’ve tried finding other music to fit that and so far have come up dry. I’ve looked online at several music sights, and skimmed through the meter listings in some of my mother’s hymnal collection during my searc.

Anybody know of any others?

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-find-tunes-with-this-meter/344127/2 "2006-02-12T19:24:38Z")

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It is an unusual meter. Probably rare enough that there aren’t many tunes aside from _Ein Feste Burg_ settings. For what purpose do you need them? Perhaps there are some close matches that might work.

_Greensleeves_, for example, is pretty close.