Dear Gordon, thanks for the message! I think it's very important to show what amount of work is behind the 20 or 30 pages of a preface which obviously seem to be neglected by many players. And there is much more which not comes with an edition ...
Best wishes from germany Thomas Am Sam, 2003-12-06 um 22.33 schrieb Gordon J. Callon: > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > From: Gordon J. Callon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: facsimile vs. modern transcription > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date sent: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 17:29:45 -0400 > > > To find, correct and document the mistakes in an edition like Testudo > > Gallo Germanico (Tree) would be *very* time consuming! That could be a > > reason why academical editions are far more expensive than editions > > intended for players. > > Reasons that scholarly editions (or "academical editions") are more > expensive include: 1. more limited market; 2. often better, acid-free > paper and better bindings; 3. more staff editorial labour; 4. royality > payments for facsimile reproductions (as much as $60 or more per single > photo); 5. the principal editor is expected to consult, collate, and > compare EVERY known primary source of every piece, normally in the > original (i.e., the actual manuscript/printed book, not a photo or > other > copy). This means travelling to every library, museum, collection, etc. > that has every source, often on various continents. Usually these > sources are listed and variants noted in the edition commentary, adding > more editorial labour (especially on staff editors who are on the > publisher's salary), and more pages to proof read, print, and bind. > > The reasons to find all sources include: > !. to determine which source(s) is/are most authorative; > 2. to compare different sources for variants (useful to find "what's an > error and what is simply 'unusual' "; and to see how much latitude is > appropriate in performance practice); variants are usually listed in > the > edition commentary; 3. to spot irregularities (for example later > additions are often in a different ink - not apparent in a photocopy, > even in pencil or, in one case I found, coloured crayon), see > watermarks, find unknown sources, etc. 4. to clarify problems in > attribution; 5. to help date the source, hence the piece (through > context, water marks, etc.); etc., etc. > > (For example, one edition I did had sources has wide apart as Los > Angeles, London, Paris, Edinburgh, and Florence, etc. There was even a > source in Lubin [that Bob Spencer travelled to instead of myself - he > was going there anyway].) > > GJC > ------- End of forwarded message ------- -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
