Klarinet Archive - Posting 000758.txt from 2003/03

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] edited music
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 13:58:09 -0500

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:44:34 +0000, rjbrennan1221@-----.com said:

> This may seem like a dumb question, but why do they edit the music
> anyway? When I was playing the Weber Concertino I listened to a
> recording and there were a few turns in it that were not on my part,
> so I added them. Why can't they (or do they) sell the edited versions
> and the unedited versions?

Good question, Rebecca.

The main reason, I'd say, is that a famous performer's edition can
enhance sales -- and of course, they can't write 'nothing' in the
clarinet part.

They could produce two separate parts -- but that's costly. There's
usually an unedited version of the clarinet part printed above the piano
part -- but of course, that's not where you want it. You want it the
other way around -- a clean clarinet part so that you can add what you
want from the edited version. But that doesn't do much for the ego of
the famous performer.

I had a little rant about it a couple of years ago:

http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/Logs/1999/03/001334.txt

http://www.woodwind.org/Databases/Logs/1999/03/001338.txt

Of course, the situation with the Weber is a bit more complicated,
because we know that Heinrich Baermann customarily embellished Weber's
original when he performed, and you might think that his son Carl's
edition contains important information about that.

There's a thread about that, too, somewhere.

Tony
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