If
notes inegales were applied (which is difficult in a duet), the piece might lose its appeal to young women who would be struggling with other aspects of the performance.
TOMORROW MUSIC - CLASSICAL CARDIFF: Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff School Of Music (03700 101051),
Notes Inegales. 7pm.
CARDIFF: Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff School Of Music (0870 013 1812),
Notes Inegales: Workshop.
And how the French fashion of
notes inegales (a shift of rhythm in linked scale-wise pairs of notes, and, in Uli's thinking, possibly implied by Bach in this music) might even perhaps have permeated through into New Orleans jazz, that city with three centuries of French tradition behind it.
While these productions are of obvious importance, what I find most remarkable is Stil's recorded documentation of the reemergence of
notes inegales (an idiomatic rhythmic flexibility, which is not written in the score) into the performance of French baroque music.
About the only `changes' to Gautier's text are the occasional explicit applications of
notes inegales, bearing out Perrine's general observation that for the `veritable mouvement' of lute pieces `les premieres parties, ou premieres parties de parties des temps de la mesure soient plus longs que les autres'.
The autograph of the French Suite in E fiat indeed survives; double dotting and dotted rests do occur 'in the Baroque era', albeit rarely; the Art of Fugue was printed by an etching process, not engraving, and no other works by Bach employed this form of reproduction, so the notation of the aria of the Goldberg Variations cannot correspond 'exactly to the lost autograph manuscript'; overture-style dotting is not the same as
notes inegales; Couperin's 'fast allemande markings' occur in a type of 2/4-metre piece very different from Bach's allemandes; Griepenkerl's quotations from Mattheson, far from revealing him as 'a child of the eighteenth century', indicate a Romantic sensibility ('Religious texts could even be added to some of J.
He further provoked with his idiosyncratic recordings of early music, such as multiple renditions of Francois Couperin 's Aile.sse pour les couvents and Messe pour les paroisses, usually played excruciatingly slowly and occasionally with their lively dotted rhythms (
notes inegales) simply ignored and played straight.
TUESDAY MUSIC - CLASSICAL CARDIFF: Cardiff University Concert Hall, Cardiff School Of Music (03700 101051),
Notes Inegales. 7pm.
An extensive and often polemical series of articles by Frederick Neumann, Robert Donington, Michael Collins, David Fuller, Graham Pont and others has considerably enriched our knowledge of
notes inegales and 'overdotting' during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries while offering strikingly opposed interpretations of the historical evidence.
Especially useful is the treatment of les
notes inegales (pp.
Yet the expressive impression is very different, and, even at the level of formal analysis, I find it hard to believe that such devices as the use of
notes inegales, the placement of bass notes on (not before) the beat in multiple stops, and other elements of present-day "baroque" playing--whether historically authentic or not--would not occasionally suggest interpretations distinct from th ose imagined within Lester's philosophy of violin playing.