In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Howell writes: >My German study was limited to the infamous two semesters of "German >for Graduate Students," but I must say that I would never have known >that that B thingy was a double-s (or "s-set"; I've never come across >a reference to it as a "sz ligature" or read that the second >consonant is a "z") unless I had taken those classes. Therefore, if >your target audience is English speakers who don't know much German, >I'd suggest using the modern convention. Unless, of course, your >intention is to duplicate the original exactly, in which case you >would have to use the almost unreadable Fractur fonts as well! And >another decision you have to make is whether to capitalize all the >nouns, which many 18th-century English speakers were still doing in >their own language. But that's admittedly the reaction of a native >English speaker in the 21st century.
I suspect there may be differences, with national trends, even among native English speakers. I have never studied German formally, but cannot remember how long ago I first met the "sz" ligature. I would expect a large proportion of musicians in the UK to be just as happy with Wagner's original spelling (though not Gothic font) as with any modernisation of it. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
