Odd World is the third movement, and the first of two purely instrumental movements, in Hatzis' multimedia music theatre work Constantinople. Odd World is available to be performed as a standalone work.
Odd World takes its name from its rather eclectic musical content – which includes references to Celtic fiddling, the music of Stravinsky and Brahms, and numerous points in between – and from the fact that the work has an odd-numbered rhythmic and formal structure. The piece is in 5/8 and each phrase is seven measures long. Larger sections of the movement also reflect odd-number relationships. After a while these odd meters and phrases come to be expected as a matter of course so the music sounds much more symmetrical and consistent than one might expect given its numerical makeup.
