Early Music Editing
Principles, Historiography, Future Directions
Edited by Theodor Dumitrescu Edited by Karl Kugle Edited by Marnix van Berchum
Paperback (Published)
(March 2014)
ISBN: 9782503551517
Price: $95.00
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Is editing music a fallacy? It may appear so when consulting the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines editing as to prepare an edition (of a literary work or works by an earlier author), or to prepare, set in order for publication (literary material which is wholly or in part the work of others).
Is editing music a fallacy? It may appear so when consulting the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines editing as to prepare an edition (of a literary work or works by an earlier author), or to prepare, set in order for publication (literary material which is wholly or in part the work of others). Of course, the parentheses readily allow the musicologist to construct a broadened definition of editing, tacitly declaring music to be akin to literature; but doing so causes a number of other discomforts, for music, while certainly not inimical to words, simply cannot be equated with literature tout court. Even so, the OED mercilessly insists on the origins of the term within the realm of literary text production. Furthermore, as if adding insult to injury, a secondary definition of editing offered by the OED-to prepare a film for the cinema or recordings for broadcasting, etc. (by eliminating unwanted material etc.) -brings music into play, but hardly in the sense it is construed in this volume, namely in its written instantiation as notation. Instead, catapulting the reader from the old-fashioned realm of ink and paper into the glittery domain of twentieth- and twenty-first century multi-media art forms and their post-Gutenbergian methods of production, storage and distribution, music editing is now made present as the cleaning-up procedure preceding the release of a new product rather than the painstaking preparation of a work or works by an earlier author for re-publication.
- Edited by Theodor Dumitrescu
- Edited by Karl Kugle
- Edited by Marnix van Berchum
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John Dunstaple Reading Boethius
John Dunstaple’s Annotations to Boethius’s “De institutione musica” in the Manuscript Oxford, Corpus Christi College Library, MS 118
Christophe Ballard, imprimeur-libraire en musique sous Louis XIV
Avec un inventaire des editions des Ballard de 1672 a 1715
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