Klarinet Archive - Posting 000400.txt from 2004/07

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Sue Raycroft, Nancy Buckman, and the subtitle of
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:08:58 -0400

Dan has already answered the question, but here is why I was asking
about "holograph" vs. "autograph".

The dictionary defines holograph to be a document that is written
*entirely* in the author's hand. So what if (as I presume has
happened) there are two copies, both handwritten by the composer, which
differ in some detail? Is one of them the "autograph"? Or what if
the composer hired copyists to produce a finished document from many
scraps of paper (or cloth or goatskin or whatever) on which he/she had
written snatches of music? If the composer declared "This copy is my
final product", could it be the "autograph" even though it wasn't a
holograph?

I remember some discussion about the precise definition of "urtext" as
well, but I assume that urtext also means "holograph" or "autograph",
but it is derived from a different language.

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