Hans Pizka <[email protected]> wrote: Steve, this is a fantastic project. Thanks for the info. We have similar projects provided by several famous libraries in Germany & Austria, mostly concentrated about the most valuable books & documents of the middle ages & before. The reason is the same as in New York: proper preservation of the originals & availability for the public.
Hans and everyone else -- This discussion continually strays into the domain of intellectual property and copying, all of which I'm trying to avoid. Meanwhile, no one seems to have followed my original suggestion, that is, to examine the Mahler 5 autograph. I've only looked at a small bit, but one detail knocked me over! The Morgan score is available here http://www.themorgan.org/music/manuscript/115214 and the quality of the images and controls on the viewer provide the ability to examine in good detail. One can easily see scratch outs of earlier details, and additions in different ink. See in particular the first page of the Scherzo (the famous Corno obligato movement). It shows evidence of many revisions, as is common with Mahler's orchestra pieces, but the astounding detail is that the first two measures of the movement appear to have been added entirely as a revision. In detail, the label on the two staves of horns appear to have been scratched out and replaced by.the two measure opening prefix. Is it possible that this movement originally started with what is now the 3rd measure? Hard to imagine with the revised score so firmly in our ears, but the evidence on the page is hard to contradict. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
