Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2006/05

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Grand Duo
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 12:31:57 -0400

> Hope some of you find this interesting.

Indeed!

One of the exercises that I have found interesting is -- just for the
fun of it --- to start with an autograph (or photocopy thereof) and to
pretend that _you yourself_ are going to publish an edition of it.

But of course you must make your edition understandable to a modern
audience or else (all sense of historical purity aside) much of the
modern audience won't be able to --- or won't want to --- struggle with
using your edition.

So!......

What do you put on your sheet of staff paper when you see something in
the autograph which doesn't agree with your conception of current usage
or common sense? ....for example, Dan's double dots in the Winterthur
fragment, or a repeat that isn't quite right, or a blur that may or may
not have been an erasure, or a piece of sloppy penmanship, or an
"obviously" careless error, or whatever?

This is an educational exercise because it gives you a *personal*
in-your-face appreciation of the dilemmas, a personal appreciation that
the editor may have been sincerely trying his or her best without agenda
or egotism.

After all, if you mess up your own edition, then *you* will be
criticized, perhaps despised, and probably dismissed for the rest of
time.

It's my feeling that anyone who criticizes an editor should at least
attempt a page or two for himself or herself first.

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