Author: Liquorice
Date: 2006-01-24 06:01
Having read a few books on performance practice, it is clear to me that there is still no agreement regarding how to perform these notes. Various treatises from the time have conflicting instructions, which doesn't help.
Regarding these passages in the Gran partita, what the Bärenreiter are trying to say is that Mozart wrote all appogiaturas with sideways lines through the stems similar to the way that we would notate an acciacatura today. When he used this notation, he always was specific regarding the length of these notes (i.e. 16th, 8th, etc.) This is one argument for performing these appogiaturas on the beat.
larryb- when you say "long", I presume you mean approximately the length of a 16th?
A good argument for performing these short and before the beat is that Mozart sometimes writes out the rhythm '16th - dotted 8th', eg. bar 92. Why would he write that out if he intended the appogiaturas to be played in the same way?
But the truth is that no-one really knows how Mozart wanted these appogiaturas to be performed (not even Dan Leeson!), and does it really matter? The music is great whichever way you play it. Happy partita-ing to those playing it this weekend!
Post Edited (2006-01-24 06:01)
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