Mozart continues to amaze. I’m not positive my interpretation is entirely right; I have some sympathy for those who want to stay in equal temperament, it’s much easier. But play measure 37 on your piano or organ: it will not sound good. That third in the bass, as sung, is much flatter and correctly flatter than the keyboard third.
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The descending commas in the bass voice, bar 39, may be gratuitous, but they seemed right to me. In bar 35, last beat, I chose an out of tune vertical sonority in order to keep the perfect melodic intervals perfect.
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I’m also working on Tallis, “If ye love me”: much less satisfying than Mozart. With Wolfgang, one knows that the music is great and the interpretation had better live up to it; with Thomas, one is much less sure about the quality, one has less fun interpreting, and the work begins to seem like dreary labor.
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