On 23 Mar 2010 at 13:30, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > About a year ago, I showed a copy of one of my Graupner editions to > my former supervisior (Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia)-- where I > duplicated the autograph score (i.e. no written out repeats of the "A" > section, and Da Capos under each section). He has no idea how to read the > movement, and asked me how it would be performed. He is very familiar with > early music too (his dissertation was on Zerlino). After this, when I > suggested to my publisher that maybe we should write out all the "A" > sections, he insisted early music performers would know how to perform the > music, and the instrumental parts could be modified as ordered (i.e to > write everything out) if requested.
If these were standard da capo arias (or similar forms), I would say it should be no issue with not writing out the repeats. However, the exception would be that care should be paid to the continuo player's part, since you want to avoid forcing the continuo player to have to flip back several pages for the repeat. When I played continuo for Handel's Alcina a few years ago, I had to put little post-it flags for some of those repeats, in order to be able to flip back in time (I was playing from a photocopy of my vocal score, and made copies of some of the repeats myself). For the orchestral players, it's not going to be much of an issue, as long as you indent each piece sufficiently, or start each one on a new page (depending on the generosity of the part layouts). For the conductor, well, she has a hand free to turn back, though there's still the issue of finding the point to go back to. It's hard to justify writing out the repeat in the full score, though. On the other hand, Baroque orchestral pieces aren't Mahler symphonies, so maybe a short score for the repeat would suffice (though I've never seen this in any performing edition, I might do it if preparing a conductor's score for one of the groups I'm playing with). -- 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
