On 1 Feb 2006 at 22:49, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > I think that critical edition standards have evolved in the early > years of both of these edtions, and what was acceptable then seems > unacceptable now.
Well, the early NMA editions that are so problematic did not meet the standards set in the NMA editorial guidelines, either. The NBA guidelines are even better than the NMA's, which tended to privilege autograph readings over all other sources even when that was not justified (and the NBA didn't approach it that way at all, perhaps because of the quite different source situation with regard to Bach's music as opposed to Mozart's). There are plenty of early NMA editions that from the standards of the time were perfectly good. The early symphonies are not included in that group, and this is precisely why they were re-edited in the 1980s. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
