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Re: Stravinsky Three Pieces

Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2015-02-28 22:00

IMSLP has a copy of the first edition (Chester). If I'm looking at the right note, it is a quaver (eighth note) in that edition. Ditto in the old International Music edition I have. (So I've never seen it as a semi-quaver before.) Since it's Stravinsky, I could see it going either way. A true semi-quaver would compensate for the "hanging" semi-quaver rest in the previous line. This is the only disruption in even beats in the movement -- but the rest does have a fermata. Playing the note following the held semi-quaver rest as though it begins on an upbeat (arsis) seems to me to play hob with the following rhythmic pattern, at least until the compensation occurs (and syncopation at that speed is very hard to pull off). On the other hand, if one plays the note following the rest as though it begins on a downbeat (thesis), then playing the note in the following line as a true semi-quaver disrupts what would otherwise be a regular rhythmic pattern. (though treating it as the third note in a triplet, as Peter suggests, avoids that problem). In any case, if I'm looking at the right note, Chester has apparently published the piece both ways and those making the recordings were probably playing from a version where the note is a quaver. I wonder what Chester's most recent edition shows and it would be instructive to see the manuscript.

Best regards,
jnk

Post Edited (2015-02-28 22:11)

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