Inconsistent beaming in Bruckner
Posted: 02 Aug 2018, 18:05
While perusing a critical edition of Bruckner's Psalm 150, I noticed that several figures in a solo soprano line are beamed in the modern fashion, i.e. with two groups of four eighth notes in 4/4. This is preserving the notation from the manuscript, in fact:
Anyone have any ideas what this could be representing?
However, after a few bars, he goes back to the style of beaming he uses throughout the rest of the piece:
Bruckner was usually extraordinarily meticulous with his scores, so I've been looking for some justification for this, but I haven't been able to find one yet. The phrasing seems identical between the "irregularly" beamed section and a similar passage a few measures later (not in either image) that is beamed as per the era.Anyone have any ideas what this could be representing?