Göttweig Suite 2
Suite 2
May 15, 2017
This is one of the works that I have until now neglected. There is one feature of it, however, which recently caught my attention.
The edition vol 1 page 38 concludes this Suite with the menuet. However, a casualty to the cutting out of 5 pages of the following work, the viola d'amore part of the Gigue that actually concludes Suite 2 is missing, and so omitted from the edition. The editors seem to have thought that while it was ok to provide a bass line for movements where one was missing, creating a fake viola d'amore part was kind of pointless. I have a lot of sympathy with this position.
However, making the effort to imagine what might have been composed is a very useful exercise. I find it sharpens the ear to harmony and style like no other part of a musician's training.
For those who would like to try their hands are imagining what the Gigue might have been like, here is a pdf of a score with the orginal bass, and the solo part blank. Gigue for reconstruction.
The Rondeau of Suite One is here in it original form.
The following score is the Göttweig editor's reconstruction: (I do not know why they chose to replace the original bass line.)
And here is the first page of the Gigue from Suite 1:
Suite 23 has a similar situation, in the the basso for a Saraband and Gigue are preserved, but the vda part is lost. Perhaps if this exercise seems like a good one I can add that score to this page.
Bourre
Bar 4 vda real notation the second note is an e'.