Dear Goeran and All,
I agree with Ron that this piece needs major surgery, and the editors of
CLMJD have sometimes made things worse rather than better. My copy of
Poulton is covered in pencil annotations, which I can't really do
justice to in a list, but these are the main features:
It is strange that the third entry of the subject (bar 2, 3rd beat)
breaks off the way it does - one might have expected at least another
complete entry here - is there a missing bar between 2 and 3?
I am dubious about both the notes and the rhythms in bar 4, as there
seems to be a bass entry of the subject, but it is again not clear what
the solution should be.
The sequence of descending 7-6s in bars 5-6 seems confused - I wonder
whether the intention was to follow through the same pattern as beats
2-3 of bar 5 right through to to the dominant D major, that is starting
with the bass G at the start of bar 6, continuing the sequence down to
the bass D before arriving at the tonic on the last beat of bar 6. I
suspect that once again, there might be some missing material, and the
bar lines seem confused as a result (both in the original and in CLMJD).
The rhythms of bars 14-16 seem to be a mess. I have a strong suspicion
that the first 4 notes of bar 14 should be crotchets rather than
quavers, but I can't justify it in any way. Bars 15-16 are clearly
wrong, because of the point of imitation - try:
2. 3 2 1 2 2. 3 2
__________a__a_a_________a______________
____a_c_d________c___c_d____d_c_a_c_d___
_d_________________d_____d____d___d_a___
_c____________________________________a_
_a______________________________________
________________________________________
(1=1 tailer, 2=2tailer, etc.)
The editors of CLMJD have added a beat at the end of bar 19 which is
clearly wrong. The bass D is the first note of the subject, continuing
into bar 20 (though I would be tempted to repeat the D as two quavers to
match the opening phrase and bars 15-16).
The sequence starting halfway through bar 36 has three repetitions of
each chord except the first one - I think there should be an extra
repetition of the G major at the end of bar 36, a conjecture supported
by the original barlines.
Passages with lots of repetition often give scribes a bit of trouble and
the last few bars of this piece are no exception. I suggest that the
note four notes from the end of bar 45 should be d3 not c3, and in bar
46 the 5th to 8th notes, and the last four chords, should be omitted,
giving us the bass G (currently last bar, second beat) as the first note
of the last bar.
Comments, anyone?
Martin
G. Crona wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Andrico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and the fact that the piece really needs reconstruction does not help
the
matter.<
Needs reconstruction???? It lacks a rhythmic sign in ms. 4 and a chord
at the end of ms. 20 in the facsimile, I would hardly call that "needs
reconstruction"!
G.
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