![]() I thought something was "not quite right" or my memory was failing me, because I didn't remember this particular notation from having played this Prelude years ago. I consulted only the Henle edition when I made my post. Play the triplet slowly and evenly, then slip the 32nd note (exactly?) in between the last note of the RH triplet and the next notes which come together in both hands. On the second beat, the RH has a triplet, the last upper note of which is written as a sixteenth and then the LH has a 32nd note after the sixteenth-note. I don't think mathematical precision is required here, but certainly these notes must be played more quickly than the 16ths in similar passages.įor what it's worth, I just listened to the Ashkenazy recording, and he plays it exactly as notated in my edition. There are a few places toward the end of the piece where the right hand shows a double dotted 8th with a 32nd note. I learned the piece (without thinking much about it) by playing the 16th notes after the third triplet, and dropping the 32nd half way between the 16th and whatever followed. The bottom line is that the 32nd note needs to be significantly "quicker" than one half of a triplet 8th note. The editors concluded that Chopin would have fixed the original edition if it had been wrong. The Paderewski edition discusses this at some length. Apparently this occurred a few times in at least one of the manuscripts, but the original edition, which was published during Chopin's life, showed all of the 16ths after the third triplet 8th. I have the sense that most editions (including the Paderewski) never show a right hand 16th note "lining up" with the last note of a triplet. It's obviously very "true" to the manuscript. I'm really interested in knowing what edition you are using, Bruce. You already know that a thirty-second note is half the value of a sixteenth note if you were counting the measure out as shown above, the thirty-second notes you refer to in your original post would fall on the + immediately before the next main beat. The following line, with the "+" signs, would represent division into thirty-second notes: Imagine counting by sixteenth notes in a measure of four quarter notes, as in the top line of this little diagram. John, you asked specifically about counting and say you're comfortable counting by sixteenth notes. ![]()
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