Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 2006/03

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Page_turns_and_B=E4renreiter?=
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:48:54 -0500

I cannot figure out how Bärenreiter screws up pages turns in
almost every edition, and it takes them a long time to correct
the problem.

I played K. 581 from a set of Bärenreiter parts when they first
came out. The minutet (with two trios) was printed in the
following way:

Minuet: right hand side of the page ending at the last note of
the minuet and with a page turn.
Trios: left hand side of the next page.

So to play the work one played the minuet, turned the page and
played trio 1.

Then one turned back to the minuet and played it again followed
by a page turn for trio 2.

Then one turned back to the minuet and played it the final time.

It was a nightmare.

Other editions of theirs that I have played were equally bad.
They hired top flight musicologists to do the editions and play
the page turns intelligently. And them some book prints the
pages on the wrong side; i.e., instead of starting the first page
as a recto, they do it as a verso, which effectively nullifies
all well-designed page turns.

And they are not the only ones. I played the Mozart Requiem on
Friday and Sunday using a newly reprinted set of B&H performance
parts of the Süssmayr version. And there were two impossible
page turns right in the middle of fast passages in the Kyrie
fugue.

Human engineering needs are not high on the list of required
skills for those who print performance parts.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

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