On 30 Oct 2010 at 14:33, Raymond Horton wrote: > I see two possible explanations for this: > > 1. A mistake > 2. Since any non-stopped notes on that staff line played by a natural > horn player will, indeed, be a Bb, the key signature reflects this > reality. The key signature actually notates the horn as being in F > mixolydian. This would be highly unlikely.
There are no B's in the part at all, so the key signature could be removed and it would be exactly the same notes. The reason I'm looking at this is that the Köchel catalog describes the edition as error-filled and hardly usable. But from scanning through it myself (I actually do know this mass), I couldn't see anything obviously wrong. The only thing that stood out was the funny horn key signature (the horns are not in Mozart's original), so I'm going to have to pull out my NMA and check the text carefully to see if there are other problems or not. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the Köchel catalog is simply wrong. For things like this, it's often simply not reliable. What I do need to check is how far back this judgment goes. Part of it is in K6 (error-ridden) and K3 has more (error-ridden and barely usable). The Einstein edition introduced lots of subjective and erroneous material, so it wouldn't surprise me if that was new in K3. But I haven't yet checked K1. If anyone has ready access to K1 (it's not in Google Books, though I am right now downloading K2 in PDF, so if it's not there, I know Einstein is responsible), I'd be interested if you can get in touch with me. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
