To serve as a current example can be our soon-to-appear, new edition of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, Op. Now for once today’s blog posting is to be devoted to the prefaces where so much fascinating and even new information lies waiting… So on this as a rule there are in the forewords (prefaces) of our editions detailed accounts based on both the current state of musicological research and our own insights. This is of course not surprising, yet working with musical sources and producing correct and reliable music texts are central in our business.īut a further, hardly less important aspect in preparing an Urtext edition is also the accurate account of the composition’s genesis, which often takes a very winding course and is certainly very significant for evaluating the extant sources. Looking at the topics of the by now more than 70 postings of this blog, most of them deal with questions of musical notation – accidentals, pitch or articulation and dynamics.
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