Re: Much Ado About Humming - Glenn Gould's Imaginary Orchestra

[Sean Malone <spm29386@oregon.uoregon.edu>]

> At 11:33 AM 4/18/01 -0700, Jim Morrison wrote:
>> To link a couple of threads going on at the moment, anyone out there with a
>> good enough ear to know just what notes Gould hums at the end of
>> Contrapunctus one?  Is he adding a different note to the music than the one
>> he's playing at the keyboard?

I hope you're not presuming I stated that in this piece he did sing a
separate part. Listen to the Aria from the second recording of the Goldbergs
- notice how he fills in the missing tonic of the chord D major in bar 2.