Friends:
I posted this question to the Early Music email list / newsgroup a
couple of days ago, but the moderator has not yet approved it. While
this is only tangentially related to Finale, I _am_ suing Finale to
create a performing edition of the score.
The question arises from a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by a
Viennese baroque composer, edited by a late Romantic Viennese
Musicologist. In the Kyrie, which is in the customary three sections
immediately after the clefs of the first section the symbol "C" [NB:
this is the bold "C" usually used in music engraving to mean common
time] appears; in the second section, again the symbol "C" appears,
this time followed by a meter signature of 3/2; the third section, again
bears the symbol "C" with a meter signature of 6/4. Three measures from
the end of the third section is the marking "Adagio". The second section
contains about 40 measures, with notation based on the half note (3 to a
measure), the first and third about 20, with the notation based upon the
quarter note (4 to a measure in the first part; 6 to a measure in the
third). I'm trying to work out the likely tempo / meter for each
section. It seems to me that the fact that the "C" appears in each
section is an indication that the measures take the same amount of time,
so that the relationship is that 4 quarters in the first section takes
the same amount of time as 3 half in the second, and 6 quarters in the
third, I'm taking the Adagio as an indication of a tempo of about 60,
and the other three sections the basic pulse a bit faster.
This is complicated a bit by the fact that the edition I am studying
does not meet the current standards for a critical edition, so I don't
have the facsimile of the original clefs and meter indications.
Opinions, anyone?
ns
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