At 11:38 PM -0400 9/29/07, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 10:45 PM 9/29/2007, David W. Fenton wrote:
Having looked at the score, I would say that I think the score is
wrong (it's bowed as 2+3 quite regularly -- I can only hear the
triplet as upbeat of 3, not as downbeat of 3).
Okay, well, I know this is a silly argument, since clearly
Tchaikowsky had a good idea of what he was doing. And I did say
earlier that the melody all by itself could be heard the way you
describe. But look at the accompaniment in the clarinets at the
beginning. Or better yet, the horns after the first repeat. Hearing
the melody as 3+2 | 2+3 requires a quite willful shift in how that
accompanying figure is perceived.
With respect for my colleagues opinions, and with thanks to Ray for
providing the score, this is an interpreter's question and therefore
a conductor's question. And different conductors may differ in their
interpretation. I would have to put more time into studying that
score than I have available, but I must say that not only the string
bowings but the woodwind slurs (all of which I assume were original)
do support the 2 + 3 hypothesis and suggest what the composer had in
mind. But there may be shifts of where the secondary beat falls on
more careful study.
John
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