On 11.05.2006 David W. Fenton wrote:
I would never bother to make such a distinction in an edition intended for anyone other than myself. It's just not valuable information, seems to me, except for someone evaluating the critical edition, and in that case, the critical notes should suffice without having to clutter the musical text with fussy distinctions that are of virtually no use to anyone and badly interfere with legibility (in my opinion).
Henle uses this practice for some of the Haydn complete edition. Since they make parts which completely agree with the score (praise them for that, it makes my life so much easier) the several layers survive in the parts. These layers are also usually very appropriate to represent an ambiguous source situation. In many of Haydns works the autograph doesn't survive, and all we have are several manuscripts which don't always give the same text.
I am pretty sure I won't convince you anyway, so I won't continue. Before you have actually looked at such a well-prepared edition you cannot seriously judge it. The A-R examples you posted are not comparable.
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