John Howell wrote:
At 5:25 PM +0000 2/1/06, Owain Sutton wrote:
I don't accept that the success of Petrucci's innovation is proof that
these books were being bought primarily to use for performances. It's
too big an assumption. I like to draw a parallel with minature scores
of symphonic repertoire - sure, they sell well, but hardly anybody
either plays or conducts from them.
(And I'm not sure what this thread was about to start with, either ;) )
Well, as long as we agree on that ...!
Your mention of study scores (which I have often enough seen used by
conductors, although these old eyes could no longer mange that
particular trick) suggests that those oversized choirbook-format
publications were used for study rather than performance, even though
that format was intended (and presumably used) for, well, choirs. If my
assumption is too big, yours is even bigger. What use would you assume
they were bought for? (And we've established, I think, that they were
not inexpensive.)
John
Many wealthy people over the centuries have padded their "libraries"
with books they've never read and had no intention of reading, so my
first thought is that wealthy people of Petrucci's time bought them just
so they could appear more erudite than they really were.
--
David H. Bailey
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