At 10:22 AM +0100 11/6/05, dc wrote:
David W. Fenton écrit:
Johannes and Dennis C., and any others who edit older music, do you
think there's anything in the beaming angle of the original sources
that might be worth preserving? Do you also try to preserve the
beaming breaks and reversed beams?
Most of the early music I edit comes from
printings in movable type, so there are no beams
to preserve. But when the sources are either
manuscripts or engraved editions, I do preserve
the beaming breaks as a rule, but not
necessarily the reversed beams (especially when
the clefs aren't the same).
Dennis
In my own editing, my goal is to make the music
intelligible to modern singers while retaining as
much as possible of what I consider important in
the original. In renaissance vocal music this
includes removing bar lines (and eliminating ties
across those bar lines) but putting the music in
score, reducing note values to make it look as I
want it to sound, and beaming across 8ths and
16ths rather than using the archaic separate
flags. My singers are used to it, and read it
just fine.
John
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