Here is the final movement of my “Short Requiem.”
Almost the entire work is in the uncommon time signature of 5/4. I did that because the work was composed tin memory of someone who had been tragically killed in a motorcycle accident- and I thought the asymmetry of the 5/4 meter could help convey the sense of being hobbled- of something being not quite right because of the loss. It was not until the midst of this fourth and final movement that the meter finally shifts to the more normal 3/4.