Klarinet Archive - Posting 000205.txt from 2001/09

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: rental parts' misprints
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:28:57 -0400

It's real, especially among obscure small-time publishers,
but we all know how absurdly error-ridden Kalmus parts are
(not exactly a low-volume publisher) and that's not just
careless editing. The opposite, in fact, despite the
equivocal substance it adds to one's attempt at produ-
cing a copyrightable edition of a work. If you're lucky,
the wrong notes are blatant, i.e., they alter the har-
mony so grossly that you can't possibly think that it
was originally written that way, and then you can cor-
rect it before moving on. I played a fl/cl/bsn trio
not long ago where, for four bars in the middle of the
piece -- in the middle of a phrase, in fact, -- the
flute part had been transposed up a half-step. It e-
voked chuckles from the three of us at the time, and
we even played it that way a few times just for the
humor of it, but I was silently annoyed that the
publisher had done this. There are honest mistakes
in some editions out there, but the intentional ones
balance those out pretty well.

Neil

--- fred.sheim@-----.net wrote:
> Is this tongue in cheek, or do they really put errors in to prevent
> copyright infringement suits?
>
> Gullible Fred
>
>
> At 10:28 AM 9/6/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >--- EbKlarinet@-----.com wrote:
> >
> >> If the rental company/publisher is handing out shoddily-prepared music,
> >> and makes no effort to see that it's corrected, then they have nothing
> >> to say about it, AFAIC.
> >
> >Well, you have to understand, the Kalmuses of the world put errors in
> >their parts intentionally as part of protecting themselves against as-
> >sertions of copyright infringement, further substantiating the unique-
> >ness of their particular edition of a piece of music, beyond other edi-
> >torial changes that they've made. It's shoddy and frustrating for us,
> >but it's dollars, cents, and avoidance of summonses and complaints
> >for them (not to mention their parts are indeed cheaper than more
> >accurate and authentic editions).
> >
> >Neil
> >
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