Klarinet Archive - Posting 000943.txt from 2003/02

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] The C-T manuscript at UCSC
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:09:26 -0500

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Dear Tony,

Thanks for your reply. Since I last wrote, I showed the MSS to Mark
Starr, who runs a music copying business (on a very sophisticated
computer program) from his home and who is knowledgeable about the
copying business and its history. He instantly recognized it as an
example of "ozalid," the technique used for architectural blueprints,
which was also used for music before the Xerox era. The music is copied
onto onion skin paper and then run through a very large machine full of
chemicals redolent of ammonia. The machines are large enough to handle
very big sheets of paper and could easily handle the long sheets we have
here. He said it was common practice for a professional copyist to copy
mainly just the notes (with articulations, I suppose) onto the onion
skin first, then the onion skin would be run through the machine and it
would be copied onto heavier paper, and finally the composer would go
through this "printed" copy and put in dynamics and expression
markings, etc., resulting in a sort of second layer. (I didn't ask Mark
what becomes of the onion skin, probably it is thrown away.) I'm not
sure if what we have is an example of this sort of layering, but I feel
quite confident that it is an example of ozalid.

I don't know what this means vis-a-vis the issue of the C-naturals
(which I am begining to like the sound of, by the way). It seems to me
that even answering the question of whose handwriting it is wouldn't
necessarily solve that problem, since presumably C-T would have (or
certainly could have) looked it over before sending it out in this form.

I will call Katie Clare Mazzeo and see if she can name someone who might
have studied it with Rosario.

And by all means, feel free to send this to the Klarinet list. Thanks
for asking.

If you are willing to wait, I will ask the UCSC library get the copies
you mention from UCLA on interlibrary loan. Could take a while.

Ciao,

Mark

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