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Re: Bax Sonata question notation

Author: John Peacock
Date: 2016-09-26 01:39

The 2nd and 3rd bars of Figure 25 are different: one has B naturals with written accidentals (but only in the clarinet part - not in the score), but the next has explicit flats, even though the first half of the bars are otherwise identical. So if you play what's written, then the bars either side of 25 have the same B natural becoming B flat pattern - don't you think having that alternation twice makes some sort of sense? Of the 3 recordings I have access to, Janet Hilton and Charles West play it as written, but John Bradbury changes the bar before 25 in the way you suggest. The harmonies are strange enough that neither alternative sounds more obviously right than the other. Since at least one bar seems to ask for B natural, it's not clear there's a strong case for change.

Great piece: good luck before 28!

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