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Topic: Bach Inventions, Edition Busoni - Mordents  (Read 1725 times)

Offline perprocrastinate

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Bach Inventions, Edition Busoni - Mordents
on: June 20, 2014, 12:03:14 AM
Are the mordents written out in this edition an accurate representation of how mordents are supposed to be played? The mordents are written out to be metrically precise.

https://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/b/b2/IMSLP42098-PMLP03267-Inventions_Busoni.pdf

For example, on page 4 (Invention No. 1), in bar 1, on beat 3, the last note of the mordent coincides with a sixteenth note in the left hand. That doesn't seem quite right to me.

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Re: Bach Inventions, Edition Busoni - Mordents
Reply #1 on: June 20, 2014, 12:32:19 AM
Busoni thought so, and it's a valid choice.

You may choose to disagree, but then you probably shouldn't be using his edition.
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Re: Bach Inventions, Edition Busoni - Mordents
Reply #2 on: June 21, 2014, 03:02:49 PM
I see.

The annotations Busoni makes are insightful. That's why I'm using his edition.

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Re: Bach Inventions, Edition Busoni - Mordents
Reply #3 on: June 22, 2014, 11:23:11 PM
You could always play off a different edition (with the ornaments notated as such and not written out) and use the Busoni for reference.
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