On 23 Feb 2009 at 15:19, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM, David W. Fenton > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Kim, do you think that there should be no continuo realization here? > > I'm not doing one at all- my editor/publisher will do one if a client asks > for one, but until then, no.
I didn't mean in the edition -- I meant in performance. You need to determine that, I think, and indicate it in your edition, seems to me (even though you're not publishing a realization, you need to make it clear where the bass ought to be harmonized). [] > > And the corrected clefs indicate to me that it's not just us today > > who could be confused by it. > > I wondered if the copyist was just so used to doing a system with 4 part > strings, he may have done the treble clefs purely out of habit, but I don't > know about that, it certainly looks like he was confused too! Well, to be fair, even Mozart has corrected clefs. Indeed, one of the great mysteries is found in the autograph of the G Minor Piano Quartet (K478), where it's clear that Mozart laid out the score with two treble-clef staves, then changed the second one to alto clef. The weird aspect of it is that, as per his usual practice, he puts clefs only on the first system of each movement, and laid out the first system of all three movements with two treble-clef staves at the top (with piano grand staff below, and bass on the bottom, as was his usual practice for piano chamber music, i.e., orchestral score order, as opposed to our modern chamber music order, with piano at the bottom). This would be explicable if the movements all began at the start of a bifolium, but they don't, so Faye Ferguson in her introduction to the facsimile suggests that perhaps this autograph was prepared from an early working MS (which would be why the number of pages needed would be known in advance). But, as she quite rightly observes, there's no evidence surviving in the viola part of adaptation from a putative original version for violin. It's not like violas in piano quartets were unknown in 1787, when Mozart wrote his first piano quartet, so it is a puzzlement, indeed, and we'll probably never know the answer. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
