It was me who picked this tune for the course - partly because it has a few
nice bits in it which aren't in the NPS Bk1 version and partly because of
that harmony line in bars 5 & 6. I was planning on having a bit of a
discussion with the group about how closely we should stick to what is in
the manuscript and at what point we decide that something may not be working
musically (even though it is Clough!). Obviously this is rather
subjective....
Pauline
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia Say" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:50 AM
Subject: [NSP] Sir Sidney Smith's March - Clough version
I have been working on music for the Whitley Bay piping week and have
discovered an
anomaly in the above tune in the Clough book, p. 122. (actually, there
were two in
the MS but I see I've corrected one in the book.)
Bar 5, the centre bar of the second pair of staves, has a complicated
"tuplet" in
the harmony stave. I have decided this bar is better represented (and is
possibly
more playable) by taking the dot off the previous crotchet (a G) and
splitting the
tuplet into two pairs of semiquaver triplets ((3Bdg (3dBG). These are
matched with
the quaver - 2 semi-quavers of the tune at this point (G2dc for the abc
literate).
The other MS error was in the following bar, where the demi-semi-quaver
pattern at
the end of the harmony stave was originally written as 4 semi-quavers with
a "4-
tuplet" marking over them.
Moral: no matter how famous the writer / composer, always question
apparent
illogicalities in anything they write down!
Hope this helps someone, at least.
Julia
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