Dear Stephen,
My guess is that the fourth note should be h rather than k. I have my
doubts about the last four notes as well, but we'll let that pass for
the moment. Bars 15 and 16 worry me - assuming the notes are correct,
it seems as though the music forms triplets starting with the last three
notes of bar 15 and continuing to the end of bar 16. But perhaps the
notes are not entirely correct?
Mertel has some interesting pieces - the next one, no.151, is good (but
watch out for the e1 at the end of bar 5 which should be c1 and the b1a2
at the end of bar 6 which should be a1b3 - or just possibly d1a2 - plus
a few other glitches, including the antepenultimate note of the piece
which should be i1 not g1).
Best wishes,
Martin
On 21/09/2011 14:44, stephen arndt wrote:
If anyone has Mertel's "Hortus musicalis novus," I would appreciate his
or her looking at Prelude 150, measure four. The measure consists of a
16th-note run on the first two courses and goes like this:
h k l k i h h i h l
l i l l i l
(I hope this show up o.k. There are only single notes, no double
stops.) The three chromatic descending notes "k i h" sound strange to
my ear, and though I have tried various "corrections," I haven't been
able to come up with anything I find convincing. I would be interested
in hearing others' opinions on whether this measure is correct as it
stands or whether it needs some emendation. Please feel free to reply
on- or off-list.
Many thanks,
Stephen Arndt
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