Klarinet Archive - Posting 000217.txt from 2009/10

From: "Heinemann, Stephen" <sjh@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Bernstein renotated (longish)
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:32:10 -0400

Joseph Wakeling wrote:

> Lots of problems happen as a result, not of faults in the software, but
> of composers and/or editors who don't bother to learn how to use it
> properly (or who don't care). The tonal/chromatic transposition is a
> source of frequent score errors ...

The "don't bother to learn" scenario seems unlikely in this case. The
"don't care" scenario is the more sinister possibility.

> Who was the publisher of this new edition? I know that Chester came up
> with a new edition, but I didn't think it had such faults as you describe.

The score reads:
Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC
Boosey & Hawkes
distributed by Hal Leonard

Joseph, your post about the Chester edition was one that I looked at in the
klarinet archive, and I assumed that the Chester was similar or identical to
the original since you're always thorough in your communications to this
list. If the Chester edition is actually different from this one, and if
both editions are available, I'll remember to recommend the Chester to
students in the future -- unless it turns out that the B&H/Leonard edition
somehow corrects the original publication (which I doubt). This all begs
the question of why two different editions would be available of a work
still under copyright.

By the way, Boosey & Hawkes publishes, through Hendon Music, all of Elliott
Carter's music, and it always looks great. (Hard to imagine "Gra" with a
key signature of two sharps!) A few years ago, a B&H executive told me that
they use the Score notation program to do Carter's typesetting.

Steve Heinemann
Bradley University

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