Toccata Marziale – Errata list
The new Boosey and Hawkes edition of Vaughan Williams’ Toccata Marziale is very welcome, but it does contain a large number of wrong notes.
Tim Reynish, from a lecture given at WASBE in Cincinnati, 2009
ERRATA IN BOOSEY AND HAWKES 2005 EDITION OF TOCCATA MARZIALE
Tim Reynish - Monday 6th July 2009. Cincinnati
I am grateful to Dr.Jessica Kun of Wilfrid Laurier University for bringing many of these errata to my attention in her edition completed for her DMA at Arizona State University. I have compared the four scores available, the 1924 and 2005 editions from Boosey and Hawkes, Dr. Kun's score and the original Vaughan Williams. I have tabulated the following errata in the new edition; wrong notes and other major mistakes highlighted. Other errata are articulation and dynamic markings which I think are usually taken from the original Boosey and Hawkes edition of 1924 and are often misleading.
EDITORIAL CHANGES
I have added an editorial anacrusis for the bassoons1 before 8 and 3rd after 20 to make them conform with the basses. In the third bar of Figure 6 there is a discrepancy in the original score between oboe, clarinet and cornet, and I have decided to have an E natural concert pitch for the first beat followed by an Eb for the rest of the bar. Some of the other discrepancies have stemmed from editorial decisions, but there are unfortunately about twenty five mistakes in the new Boosey and Hawkes edition. I have given bar numbers and the figures of the 1924 version.
For the performance by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble on July 8th we used an updated version of the edition by Dr. Kun. Bold print is used for major problems.
Bar no. |
Figure |
Bar |
Problem |
Bar 4 |
1 |
1 before |
Staccato omitted in brass upbeat |
Bar 8 |
2 |
1 before |
Bassoons lines omitted |
Bar 8 |
2 |
1 before |
Tenor saxophone last note should be F not A |
Bar 11 |
2 |
3 after |
Crescendo notated 1 beat too early |
Bar 17 |
3 |
3 after |
Side Drum Crescendo omitted |
Bar 18 |
3 |
4 after |
3rd clarinet wrong notes 2nd eighth note should be D natural, 6th should be Bb |
Bar 22 |
5 |
|
All parts diminuendo should be from 2nd eighth note |
Bar 22 |
5 |
|
Bassoon 1 should be piano not mf |
Bar 25 |
5 |
4 after |
All parts crescendo should be last beat, not whole bar |
Bar 26 |
6 |
4 before |
2nd Clarinet has no note in this bar - col cornet 2 starts in the next bar in the original score |
Bar 32 |
6 |
3 after |
Oboe 4th semi should be E natural 7th and 9thEb Score has E natural throughout_ |
Bar 32 |
6 |
3 after |
Clarinet 2 4th semi should be F#. 7th and 9thF natural (Score has F# throughout) |
Bar 32 |
6 |
3 after |
Trumpet should have F# not natural (Score has F natural) |
|
7 |
1 before |
Bass trombone, euphonium and tuba slur from second sixteenth ote |
Bars 37/38 |
7 |
Bars 3 -4 |
Basses should be legato 2nd & 3rd and 5th and 6theighth notes |
Bar 38 |
7 |
4th after |
Triangle rhythm should be quarter note eighth note rest quarter note eighth note rest |
Bars 39/40 |
7 |
Bars 5 & 6 |
Basses should be legato 4th and 5th and then first 2 eighth notes |
Bar 43 |
8 |
1 before |
Bassoons editorial addition of upbeat Ab |
Bar 45 |
8 |
2nd bar |
Crescendo eighth note early |
Bar 48 |
9 |
3 before |
Timpani and Percussion forte not ff |
Bar 50 |
9 |
1 before |
Diminuendo eighth note too early |
Bar 51 |
9 |
|
4th Horn should have a D instead of |
Bar 51 |
9 |
|
Cornets piano first beat |
Bar 53 |
9 |
3 after |
Tutti diminuendo last quarter note |
Bar 54 |
9 |
4th bar |
Tuba first eighth note is G |
Bar 64 |
10 |
|
2nd bassoon legato ends on 2nd beat of 4th bar |
Bar 60 |
10 |
1 before |
Dimuendo from beat 1 |
Bar 65 |
10 |
5 after |
Trombone 1 should be D not C |
Bar 67 |
10 |
7 after |
Trombone 1 tacet for 1 bar |
Bar 68 |
11 |
1 before |
Alto saxophone should be tacet for 1 bar |
Bar 69 |
11 |
|
Second bassoon starts on 1st beat with a D eighth note |
Bar 75 |
12 |
|
Clarinet phrasing wrong for 4 bars |
Bar 75 |
12 |
|
Bass trombone should be B not G |
Bar 82 |
13 |
3 before |
Second bassoon should have B natural not Bb |
Bar 84 |
13 |
1 before |
1st clarinet second eighth note should be G# not Gb |
Bar 91 |
14 |
|
Trombone second entry should be p not pp |
Bar 91 |
14 |
|
Tubas should be p not pp though euphonium is pp |
Bar 95 |
15 |
1 before |
Upper woodwind diminuendo should be last quarter note |
Bar 103 |
16 |
3 before |
Cornet 1 should be Bb not G |
Bar 103 |
16 |
3 before |
Side drum add ruff before bar |
Bar 111 |
17 |
1 before |
Oboe an octave too low |
Bar 111 |
17 |
1 before |
Tubas omit 2nd eighth note |
Bar 113 |
17 |
2nd bar |
Trombones crescendo last quarter note |
Bar 114 |
18 |
2 before |
2nd clarinet should play eighth note F# then 2 eighth note rests |
Bar 121 |
19 |
3 before |
Timps should have eighth note on 1st beat followed by 2 eighth note rests |
Bar 124 |
19 |
|
1st cornet should be E not G |
Bar 124 |
19 |
|
4th horn should have 2 bars of dotted half note A, as at 6 |
Bar 123 |
19 |
1 before |
2nd cornet should have C# not natural according to piano score |
Bar 137 |
20 |
3rd bar |
Bassoons insert Ab anacrusis |
Bar 147 |
21 |
|
Clarinet should diminuendo on last quarter note |
From 155 |
End |
Last 3 bars |
Eb clarinet, oboe, both saxes and 1st clarinet phrasing could be changed to fit the original |
Bar 155 |
End |
3 before |
Side drum should have crescendo |
Bar 158 |
End |
|
Cymbals stroke missing |