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August 6, 2006 at 5:04 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm back from Encore! I have to do a huge update later to tell about all the stuff that happened...but right now, I have a quick question for anybody who has ever played the Devil's Trill. I started working on it this summer, and the cadenza is, for lack of a better word, devilish. I have the International edition, and so all of the trills that are in the cadenza, which is most of the page, are not written out in trill form but in chords, with brackets to show which notes to trill. Because it's written this way, it's really, really hard to break down. Does anybody know of an edition that has all of those trills written out?

Thanks,

alice

Dig up ye olde treatises, decipher the secrets of baroque trills, and just have at it.
Greetings,
Peters is edited by Hermann. The trills are easy to read but itis one of the worst Tartini editions around generally. Tartini editions often need a lot of rewrtiting because they bece utterly distorted in the 19th century. In particular with this ediion, omit the double octaves in the piano part!
You can see the whole passage in Mozarts fathers book with fingerings but the bowings should not be taken literally as they chop things up.
The other famous sonata by Tartini (Didone abbandonata) has editions by Ricordi (Polo) and Auer. The ricordi editions I have are better than Peters so you might check them.
Cheers,
Buri