"Mark Stephen Mrotek" <carsonm...@ca.rr.com> writes:
Paolo,
A quick examination of pieces in my collection showed that the
following editions did not use brackets for the pedal, rather
Ped. *
was used.
Paragon, Fryderyka Chopin Institute, Breitkopf & Hartel, and
Edwin F.
Kalmus.
Unfortunately for the current discussion, these are (by Lilypond's
own standards) some of the truly run-of-the-mill publishers, if
they manage to achieve even that standard. That edition of Chopin
does carry the name of a former celebrity on the cover, it's true;
he may have been an excellent man (I can't say), but his
music-publishing efforts were second-rate at best. (It's clear he
was only lending his name for the celebrity cachet anyway; all the
PWM Chopin books have the decency to name the real editors at
least, and Paderewski wasn't among them.) Bad editing, bad
printing, substandard paper, brittle glue that only holds the book
together long enough to get it home... well, you can't say they
were inconsistent. :)
I guess my position as a pianist is that while Paolo seems to be
mistaken about software politics, musically he's correct. There's
no musical justification for claiming that Lilypond's sloppy and
inconsistent handling of piano pedalling is acceptable. (There's
also no social/political justification for claiming that that fact
obliges any particular person or group to fix it at any particular
time.)
--
David Rogers
