Re: Different notations - Bach - Cello
Posted: 25 Aug 2020, 17:58
Den, I know you were just experimenting with the curved beams for fun, but actually, I don't think that the curved Bach beams are necessary in an authentic edition. If you look at the pieces that Bach published himself, like the Art of Fugue and the 6 keyboard Partitas you will see straight beams. The purpose of the curved beams seems to have been space-saving in some cases and to avoid very long stems, which were considered less desirable at the time than today.
I do preserve the centered beaming whenever it seems to show phrasing. In the case of your example, I wouldn't preserve the centered beaming because it was just a convenience. Of course, in converting centered beams, one has the problem of deciding which way the stems should go. In your example, I think down might be best for the second measure.
Wess's example is, of course, a duplication of a late 19th century or 20 century highly-edited edition to show how computer engraving can replicate the best features of plate engraving at its height; that is, when done by the hands of a master like Wess.
To see this work closer to its original form, see the Wiener Urtext edition of the Haydn Piano Sonatas (ed. by the Landons). Online the Paesler edition at IMSLP is also quite good:
https://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usim ... onatas.pdf
I do preserve the centered beaming whenever it seems to show phrasing. In the case of your example, I wouldn't preserve the centered beaming because it was just a convenience. Of course, in converting centered beams, one has the problem of deciding which way the stems should go. In your example, I think down might be best for the second measure.
Wess's example is, of course, a duplication of a late 19th century or 20 century highly-edited edition to show how computer engraving can replicate the best features of plate engraving at its height; that is, when done by the hands of a master like Wess.
To see this work closer to its original form, see the Wiener Urtext edition of the Haydn Piano Sonatas (ed. by the Landons). Online the Paesler edition at IMSLP is also quite good:
https://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usim ... onatas.pdf