Klarinet Archive - Posting 000545.txt from 2004/03

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart K622 "urtext" edition
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:29:26 -0500

Joseph Wakeling wrote:
> Dan Leeson wrote:
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> << At a minimum, stop calling them urtext. They are not. >>
>
> Edition Peters' website has a relevant article which stresses the importance
> of seeing a difference between "Urtext" and "Urtext Edition":
>
> http://www.urtext.com/urtext_text.html
>

It is always an advantage for an editor to be able to advertise his work
as Urtext or even Urtext edition, even should it be nothing of the sort.

The word "Urtext" comes from the work "Ur" meaning the origin, the
original, the source place from which all mankind comes.

But in the strictest sense, it can only be used when the source for the
edition is the manuscript.

Dan

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