At 8:47 PM +0200 5/25/10, dc wrote:
I'm trying to figure out exactly how to play this piece.
There are three Menuets, that last of which is here:
www.collins.lautre.net/files/da_capo.jpg
The fermatas at the end of the first section are the standard way of
indicating the "Fine" of the Da capo.
When does one play Menuet 1 again? I'd say after the "Fine" of the
Menuet 3 (i.e. after AABA), but that would make the placement of the
"Menuet 1 Da capo" a bit strange. Any other interpretations?
Thanks,
Dennis
Hard to say without seeing the other 2 menuets, but the key may be
whatever that squiggle is after the word "Menuet ?" at the end. I
can't make out what it says. And the double "Da Capo" indications at
the end might actually be functional rather than redundant, one of
them indicating a da capo to the beginning of Menuet 3, the other to
the beginning of Menuet 1. Do any of them include a Trio section?
If it follows French Rondeau form (although there isn't any reason it
should), wouldn't the form be A B A C A? (With or without internal
repeats, according to taste?) Interesting that there is a Begin
Repeat halfway through Menuet 3, but no End Repeat at the end. And
harmonically the final cadence is at the end of the A section at the
fermatas, not the half cadence at the end of the B section.
So perhaps each menuet has to be taken as its own entity with its own
internal repeat form, which are then strung together in order to
extend the dance.
OR, of course, they could be 3 entirely separate menuets, not
especially intended to be performed as a set. Many choices; I can
see why you ask.
Unusual to see French violin clef in a keyboard piece, too. More
often one would see a soprano clef, although I might be channeling
Bach. Is that consistent through the 3 menuets, too?
John
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