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Topic: Liszt E flat concerto polyrhytms  (Read 1329 times)

Offline blazekenny

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Liszt E flat concerto polyrhytms
on: May 08, 2014, 08:14:15 AM
Hello.
I am struggling with the second movement of the E flat concerto by Liszt. Could anybody tell me how to play it ? My edition doesnt have bar markings, but according to my counting, it is bars 142-144, marked with "piu cresc"

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Re: Liszt E flat concerto polyrhytms
Reply #1 on: May 08, 2014, 05:53:54 PM
It looks like there are just a few 2-against-3s. Is there something harder that I'm not seeing?

Offline j_menz

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Re: Liszt E flat concerto polyrhytms
Reply #2 on: May 10, 2014, 01:52:18 AM
If I've got the right bit, it's where you have 5v6, but the first 2 notes of the 5 are marked with a )2?

It's basically a straight 6v6, except the first 3 of the six are changed to a duplet.  In other words, if yo think of the bass as two sets of triplets, the treble is one duplet against the first set (simple 2v3) and the other three notes in the treble line up with the next set (allowing for the dotted effect on the last two, of course).
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