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Re: chopin example


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: chopin example
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:30:31 +0200
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Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 26.08.2013 13:45, schrieb Martin Tarenskeen:
>> For example at some point in the score I have to combine two 3/4
>> bars in the right hand with one 2/2 bar in the left hand. polymetric
>> music from 1830! 
> BTW: Schubert had a manner of playing with 'weakening' metrics through
> the use of accents.

Bach does it even worse.  I remember hemioles in several choroi that
were discoverable mostly because the lyrics changed metre (in the
meaning of "stress pattern").

I suppose that this kind of cue would mostly be lost on non-native
singers.

> I haven't found references in the 'official' literature confirming
> this, but I've come to be sufficiently sure about it to dare to come
> up with an example like the attached ones.  Admittedly this is an
> _extreme_ case but there are plenty of cases where he uses the
> technique to e.g. write two 3/2 bars instead of three 2/2 ones.

Overriding the composer with regard to metric choices may often be a bad
idea since quite often there is a subtle ambiguity and balance between
the different voices and their respective melodic highlights.

A metre change might make a much more definite statement than intended
by the composer.

-- 
David Kastrup




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