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The Secret Life of Musical Notation: defying interpretive traditions

Chapter Six Audio Clips

 

6.2a - F. Chopin: Polonaise Fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61 - m. 244, beat 3

1) as it appears in the Breitkopf & Härtel Stichvorlage
2) as it is interpreted by Artur Rubinstein
 

6.2b - F. Chopin: Polonaise Fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61 - m. 264

1) as it appears in the Breitkopf & Härtel Stichvorlage
2) as it is interpreted by Artur Rubinstein

6.4a - J. S. Bach: Subject of the Gigue from the French Suite in d minor, BVW 812

This audio clip features the subject in Bach’s original notation

6.4b - J. S. Bach: Subject of the Gigue from the French Suite in d minor, BVW 812

This audio clip features the subject as it would be rhythmically interpreted according to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s instruction

6.5a - J. S. Bach: Beats three and four, measure 9, from the Fugue in d minor, Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II

This audio clip features the measure in question as it was notated by the composer

6.5b - J. S. Bach: Beats three and four, measure 9, from the Fugue in d minor, Well-Tempered Clavier Book II

This audio clip features the measure in question as it would be rhythmically interpreted according to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s instruction

6.21 a & b - F. Chopin: Sonata in b minor, Op. 58 - I. Allegro maestoso - m. 50

This audio clip includes both examples 6.21a and 6.21b in one single file, as they represent consecutive measures of the same passage.

6.22 - F. Chopin: Sonata in b minor, Op. 58 - I. Allegro maestoso - m. 51

6.23 - F. Chopin: Sonata in b minor, Op. 58 - III. Largo - mm. 28-30
6.24 - F. Chopin: Sonata in b minor, Op. 58 - I. Allegro maestoso - mm. 183-184

6.26 - F. Chopin: Sonata in b minor, Op. 58 - III. Largo - m. 26

6.31 - J. Brahms: Rhapsody in g minor, Op. 79, no. 2 - mm. 26-32

6.39 - L. van Beethoven: Sonata in D Major, Op. 28 - II. Adagio - mm. 27-32