Re: More Gounod :-)

[Alberto Simões]

Hello,

Finally trying to review this.

On 12/12/15 06:18, Brian Barker wrote:
> o It's a weird style that puts full stops other than at the end of
> sentences. You have sensibly excised the full stops after the title and
> the composer. It would be sensible also to lose them after "Murmurs of
> regret from the troupe", "The procession", and "Return to the House".
> (But you do need the full stops after "... broken" and "... refreshments".)

Decided to remove them all. I think that even the two after "broken" and 
"refreshments" can be dropped without big loses.

> o There are many accidentals that I would parenthesise, e.g. the
> naturals in bar 24 and the flat and natural in bar 26 (and many more) -
> but you may want to retain the style of the original.

Yes, I will keep them as they are. I feel the whole score is already too 
crowded with notation, that the parenthesis might make more confusion 
than help.

> o The slur from the C-sharp in bar 23 to the D in bar 24 fails to appear
> at all in the new system. (The identical one between bars 109 and 110 is
> how it should look.)

Fortunately, forcing the music to be in four pages solved the issue 
without I needing to learn how to do it :-)

> o Shouldn't the grace note in bar 53 be slurred to its adjacent D, not
> to the lower F-sharp? (This occurs also in bars 57, 69, 85, 89, and 90.)

I think I fixed them all.

> o The dynamics surely do not follow standard practice? The forte in bar
> 54 continues to apply in bar 55 without being repeated. Is this meant to
> represent sforzando? This also applies to the forte in bar 87, the
> pianissimos in bars 95, 97, and 99, and the ppp in bar 139: they all
> apply without being stated. But again you may wish to preserve the style
> of the original.

Indeed, not sure why those repetitions. Will keep with the original.


Further suggestions and corrections are welcome.

https://github.com/ambs/music/blob/master/Gounod/FuneralMarchOfAMarionette/march.pdf

Thank you,
Alberto