John Howell wrote:
At 5:24 PM -0700 10/24/04, Carl Dershem wrote:
John Howell wrote:
Possible. In fact, probable, considering his demands on notation. But I've recently worked with a Jean Sibelius score which was actually published as a facsimile of his manuscript score. His hand isn't bad, thankfully, but it isn't perfect, either. The piece was composed in the teens, I think.
Having seen some photos of original Mozart and Beethoven manuscripts, I'm sometimes really happy that they *expected* copyists to take those and flesh them out.
It'd take a VERY complex font set to reproduce that ... scribble, and very good musicians to play it.
Well, in defence of Mozart and Beethoven (who really DID expect the musicians they wrote for to read from their own or a copyist's manuscript, and to sightread at that), that's exactly what you get in the orchestra books for those Broadway shows that have not been updated from the original manuscript onionskins. Same thing for the original productions of operas. And sometimes 3 or more hands in a single book, each worse than the others! Unfortunately, reading hand copy is not a skill we tend to teach our students, either in solo work or ensemble work, and we should.
And, of course, no one (it seems) ever erases the (usually pencil, thank goodness!) cuts and changes from show parts and scores, which almost always causes some confusion at a first rehearsal. It always seems to take a couple of shows for a new player to 'get' how that works, and learn to read (sometimes literally) between the lines. I'm glad I never had to read much classical music in the original, though. Engraved parts are SO much better. (Yay Finale!)
cd
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