On Tue, June 1, 2010 3:49 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > HAM was, at least, quite old, from before the time when this music > had been studied at great length.
Not exactly great length outside a limited academic world. HAM was only 18 years old when I studied from it, and I was performing this on the street (literally), not in the university. Oxford editions didn't hit Trenton (where I was living) until the mid-1970s. There were no source materials to go back to without considerable struggle to have libraries prepare wet copies. So pretty much HAM was it. > We still encounter editions that don't get the barring right that are > quite recent. It's one of my main uses for Finale, re-editing modern > critical editions to get the musical content right. I can imagine. I'm thinking of three separate versions of "Be m'an perdut (another tune I used to sing on the street) before 1966. > Anyway, I could rant all day, and often do. Okay with me. :) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
