On 28 Jun 2010 at 15:01, John Howell wrote: > I don't remember, but weren't the 1732 parts just for certain > movements? The entire Mass wasn't put together until the late 1740s, > as I recall. And were there performing parts from then (since it was > never performed)? And Bach almost ALWAYS revised for subsequent > performances or the reuse of movements, as did Handel for strictly > practical reasons.
I'm at the limits of my memory at this point, so I'll let someone who has the actual information at hand chime in. While I think the idea of the score with gray variant readings is intriguing, it's still falls on the wrong side of the controversial criticial vs. performing line for me. While I'm a musicologist, I think a critical edition has to resolve the performing problems (without hiding the fact that it's an editorial intervention), or it's of no use whatsoever. I don't see how printing all the variant readings, even in gray, does that. -- 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
