Interesting keyboard notation
Posted: 21 Mar 2022, 17:03
Because one player plays all the parts, the notation of solo keyboard music allows for creative solutions that can sometimes break conventional rules. I come upon these quite often and thought that it might be interesting to post them in this thread as they come up.
The first one are these half notes in 6/8 at the end of Chopin's Etude op. 10 no. 7, which are so much better than tied notes since there is no danger that it could be confused with a change to 3/4 accentuation, as it might in an instrumental part.
Sometimes keyboard players have to read between the lines notationally. Earlier half notes in the same piece simplify what would otherwise have been a very ugly tied notation, but this is an approximate notation for a note that holds for 5, not 4 eighth notes. (Measure 2 in the following example.) That it is intended to hold to the end of the measure is born out by the measure before it.
The first one are these half notes in 6/8 at the end of Chopin's Etude op. 10 no. 7, which are so much better than tied notes since there is no danger that it could be confused with a change to 3/4 accentuation, as it might in an instrumental part.
Sometimes keyboard players have to read between the lines notationally. Earlier half notes in the same piece simplify what would otherwise have been a very ugly tied notation, but this is an approximate notation for a note that holds for 5, not 4 eighth notes. (Measure 2 in the following example.) That it is intended to hold to the end of the measure is born out by the measure before it.