Klarinet Archive - Posting 000747.txt from 2002/04

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Pay, Articulation and K. 622
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:12:50 -0400

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:55:13 -0700, leeson0@-----.net said:

> "Out of" whatever sources the editor used to construct his edition.
> Since there has not yet been issued a "critical commentary" to this
> volume, I don't know what those sources were.

According to Lawson, it has been issued: NMA Kritischer Bericht V/14/4
(Cassel, 1982). (I haven't read it, BTW.)

> But a contrast of the NMA with a bunch of sources I know very well
> show clearly that the editor took out a lot of articulations.
>
> After all, Tony, the guy had to use something to create his edition.
> For sure he did not take it entirely out of his head.

No, I know that, Dan. But surely, the sources are: the first edition,
the Winterthur manuscript and the AMZ article. Neither of the first two
contains slurs taken out in NMA.

It's only *after* that that they started to have a field day.

> Most of the editors of the NMA volumes began with an existing edition
> and a bottle of snow-pake. And, let me assure you, I used up a gallon
> of that stuff, taking out crap that had been hanging around for 2
> centuries.

Well, I understand *that*. But couldn't the editor just have
photocopied the first edition in this case, so that the alterations were
minor?

Tony
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