At 11:47 PM 10/12/02, Colin Broom wrote: >Ok, I'll come clean. For reasons that are too uninteresting to explain, >I've been putting the Introduction of Part 1 of of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of >Spring' into Finale. Suffice to say it's related to the lecturing work at >University. So the bass clarinet example I cited in the previous post is >from bar 13 of the Introduction. In both the Boosey and Hawkes study score >and the Dover Edition score there is a bass clef at preceding bar 13 >followed by a A (transposed) on the first space.
Hm, that IS strange. I'm fairly certain that the bass clarinet is moving down just a half step from the previous note. Why it suddenly switches to bass clef is beyond me. (Surely it's not just to avoid ledger lines below the treble clef?) >While we're on the subject of apparent anomalies in the Rite score, there >are a few rhythms in the score that seem to me to not quite add up. For >example the Flute 1 tuplet in bar 25 (rehearsal point 5). By my count, >there seem to be too many notes in this measure. Is this correct? The only >way I can see this adding up is if there were 2 additional nested triplets >(or 1 sextuplet) over the 2nd and 3rd notes, and also the 4th, 5th & 6th >notes. The way I understand this bar is that there is a triplet over the entire beat (ie, matching the triplet in the oboe melody). For the second and third of these triplet eighths, there is a nested triplet for the 16ths. That is, the high G# is played for 5/9ths of the beat, and each of the other notes is played for 1/9th of the beat. If you think of it as coloring to go with the oboe, it feels totally natural. The 2nd flute does the exact same thing in the following measure. I agree that this isn't clear in the Boosey score, but there are several instances of similar nested triplets throughout the section which are explicitly marked, eg the alto flute after [6], and the 1st and 2nd flutes right before [7] For what it's worth, I'm not speaking from any academic authority here nor as a flutist who has played it. I'm just someone who happens to be familiar with the piece as a listener and score reader. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
