On Jun 22, 2004, at 2:53 PM, Richard Huggins wrote:
I am engraving some piano works where also I've been given quite a bit of
latitude as regards editing-type decisions. In some situations of
arpeggiated LH passages the composer sometimes has, for example, used 6
notes beamed togather (12/8 meter) or other times 3 and 3. There's no
material difference in the passages and interpretively they would be played
with 6-note phrasing. I attribute his doing them differently to
capriciousness as much a anything else.
At times it would help the layout process if 3 and 3 were used (stem
directions would shift), and since I am using slurs it seems to me that 3
and 3 with a slur would, interpretively, be the same as 6 beamed together,
so if I can help myself using 3 and 3 it's acceptable.
Agree or disagree?
Agree. The key information here is, "I've been given quite a bit of latitude as regards editing-type decisions".
The real answer depends on your relationship with the composer, but in my experience when I am given that latitude it's precisely because the composer wants me to normalize stuff like this. Strange as it seems to us, some composers don't want to even think about things like beaming. From their point of view, that's the engraver's business, and they expect us to do "whatever's right."
mdl
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