On 8 Sep 2005 at 16:30, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > If anyone has the time I would really be interested if a (any) Peters > publication of Bach Organ works follows this, sometimes or all the > times, or not at all, since he seems to claim that they don't. I > cannot check this since I don't own one. Please also let me know the > year of the publication.
I just pulled out Peters Bach Orgelwerke VIII (concertos & the 8 little preludes & fugues), and on the first page of Concerto II (the edition doesn't have BWV numbers), I see a passage with ties in all the lower voices of both manuals as well as the pedal. The note in the left hand is a G#, tied from a half note at the end of one measure to two whole measures, then tied over a system break to a dotted half. The # is *not* repeated So, that's an example where Peters does break the rule. It doesn't look like a problem in the context, though, as it would be completely unmusical and nonharmonic to think that the tied G were natural and not sharp. The notes above make it impossible to forget that, and the long held chord makes it very unlikely that someone would accidentally interpret it as a slur. The passsage recurs later with different distribution of the parts in the hands (not logically, though -- it is just badly notated in the first occurrence), but with the system break after the first half note. The # is not repeated. I also found another case in the 6th of the preludes (an alla breve), in which breaking the rule *is* confusing. The context is that in the measure before the system break, two voices land on G#. One is tied and on the downbeat of the next measure, the top one moves to A natural. So, you see a step dissonance, and in context, it looks more logical for it to be a whole step, but it's really a half step. Of course, again, when playing it, it's very unlikely one would make that misjudgment. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
