Klarinet Archive - Posting 000234.txt from 2010/10

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Urtext
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:39:33 -0400

On 10/25/2010 12:25 AM, Dan Leeson wrote:
> If the edition is not based primarily on the manuscript, it is not Urtext, even though it may be well thought out and intelligently done.

Can you clarify what "primarily based on the manuscript" means?

I'm thinking here of cases where the manuscript is arguably not the most
authoritative source of the composer's final thoughts -- for example,
where there are large amounts of revisions introduced at the proof stage.
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