[NSP] Re: Sir Sidney Smith's March - Clough version
Ooops - said I was too tired. My wife just produced the book, Correction!! Gavott ( no "e") and I am sorry, it is the shorter version where the last phrase doesn't repeat. Sorry again, I was up far too early. Best wishes, Richard. On 08/10/2010 20:35, Pauline Cato wrote: 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" [1] To: [2] 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 To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:julia@nspipes.co.uk 2. mailto:nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Sir Sidney Smith's March - Clough version
Subjective indeed... especially when John Clare gives the tune ( I believe in its non-abridged version, but I'm sorry, I'm too tired to go & check just now) as a Gavotte by Handel. :) Richard. On 08/10/2010 20:35, Pauline Cato wrote: 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" [1] To: [2] 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 To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:julia@nspipes.co.uk 2. mailto:nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
