Stravinsky Conducts
Conducting in two times at once?
Looking at the score for Stravinsky’s Petrushka, I’ve noticed that many times in the First Tableau, several instruments switch times while others remain the same. Now this might make sense if it were 6/8 versus 3/4, but the times in the score involve certain sections of the orchestra playing in 7/8 while everyone else is in 3/4, 5/8 versus 2/4, and especially 8/8 versus 3/4. How does the conductor pull this off? And for the last one, 8/8 versus 3/4, isn’t that mathematically the same as 4/4 versus 3/4? Shouldn’t the 8/8 people be a beat ahead?
looking at this score, i think i see what you mean at rehearsal #19
http://imslp.org/wiki/Petrushka_(Stravinsky,_Igor)
the measures are going to keep lining up through that section. its the same as if he’d written a septuplet over the bar. this is an odd way to do it, but it has to be what he meant.
if you look two measures after #19 you see there is a “dotted half = half” mark, which is telling you that the conductor is thinking of 3/4 and then 2/4 since those values wouldn’t be useful in 7/8 and 5/8. but it’s also a hint that it’s the measure that is probably getting the beat (it’s possible at quarter = 138). so everyone would just divide up the measure as they need for their part.
this is the original edition i’ve linked to. stravinsky revised a lot of his music to clear up rhythmic things like this. i know this piece was revised, but that version is not in the public domain and i don’t have it… so i’m not sure if this is specifically one of the things that got “fixed” in the 40′s.
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