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Bucolique tempo

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2011-08-13 17:05

I recently acquired Bozza's Bucolique, Leduc c. 1949. The 3/8 scherzo's tempo marking clearly says dotted quarter = 189, i.e. slightly over 3 bars per second. I'm finding that a tad zippy. The recordings I've checked (including Morales') sound more like eighth note = 189. What's the deal with the marked tempo?

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Re: Bucolique tempo

Author: jvanullen
Date: 2011-08-13 18:05

I'm fairly certain that the tempo Ricardo takes is closer to what was intended. I'm not sure if that passage at the tempo marked is even possible.

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Re: Bucolique tempo

Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2011-08-13 18:34

Ricardo's tempo is right, and is the same as Charlie Neidich does as well. It's the eighth note, not printed dotted quarter which is a mistake.

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Re: Bucolique tempo

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2011-08-13 19:10

Where did the dotted quarter marking come from? If it was a typo by the publisher, that's one thing. If the composer deliberately wrote it, that's another - and puzzling. If Bozza specified dotted quarter, I'd probably put it in the Charles Ives "play as fast as you can" category. But I'm not perceiving any musical reason for this to seem either breathless or crazy or strained. (Leduc's biographic notes cite Paul Griffiths' New Grove article as crediting Bozza with "consistently sensitive concern for instrumental capabilities.")

Has anyone seen the manuscript or a facsimile thereof?

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