Author: brycon
Date: 2018-08-10 19:47
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At the end of the day I’m just playing for my own enjoyment, and so it doesn't really matter what I do. However, I've just started reading Saint Saens' memoirs "Musical Memories" and am getting the feeling that this was a man of extremely firm opinion! If he didn't put a turn there, then he probably didn't for a good reason.
I suppose you're doing F# to G# as your graces?
The likely reason why Saint Saens didn't use these graces is that the music here is moving into the key of C minor, which requires an F natural (concert Eb).
So if you wanted to get some graces that fit the harmony, you would need an F natural to G#, which creates an augmented second and is therefore unusable. Or you could do G natural to G#, which creates an inelegant chromaticism, clashes with (if you pardon the theory jargon) the French augmented-sixth chord in the piano part, and is therefore also unusable.
Alternately, then, you could avoid all these harmonic headaches and just leave out the graces, as Saint Saens has it.
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