Dear Alain > That is a good question. I can only tell you why in my case I have > failed to produce the edition I wanted to produce perhaps above all > else: the Cherbury lute book. I contacted the Fitzwilliam museum over [...] > this will not happen, in great part because of all the negativity that > is currently affecting Internet publishing. In the end, I agree with > you: WEB and electronic documents need to break new ground, but it is > slightly unfair to claim that this is easy to do.
I never said it is easy. And of course I, too, benefit from all the efforts many of you are making to put music on the internet. Thank you all! It just seems so pointless to copy editions readily available. Eric has a valid reason for his Wilson preludes: a readable edition in tablature; good. But I see much music that lacks such a valid reason. Added to that the editions often lack good editorial practice (source, editorial method, proofreading), so I feel very hesitant to trust much of what is published on the internet. The recent, relatively innocent confusion about the Brescianello music is a point in case (source reference and page with tunings missing, key designations added, titles added). Having said that, I am glad I now can play this music, but what more has been changed? Without some explanation of editorial methods, I still need the facsimile. I spoke a lot with the librarians of the Nederlands Muziek Instituut, what was formerly the Library of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. They own many original tablatures, and part of their job is to preserve these. Handling them for scanning/photographing is not good for their condition. I was involved in talking to them about the recent Van den Hove facsimile edition from the NLV, the original of which is in their library. If a good facsimile edition comes availble, they are very willing to help. But they want insurances that the edition will meet their standards, otherwise people that want to know really what is in the original will still come to handle their precious property. Publishing music, in facsimile or transcription, is a job. Having the computer skills does not neccecarily make you qualified. David ***************************************** David van Ooijen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/ ***************************************** > best wishes, > Alain > > > > > LGS-Europe wrote: > >>>To those of you who have expressed an interest in The John Wilson >>>Preludes that I have started posting on <wwwGuitarLoot.co.uk> I am >>> >>> >> >>Why go through all this trouble when there's a beautiful edition >>available? >>Diapason press (DP49, Utrecht) has an edition which includes the small but >>readable facsimile as well as a modern transcription, excellently done by >>Matthew Spring. >>And on a more general note, whithout wanting to demean anyone's efforts, >>why >>do many people on the net spend hours of typing in music that is readily >>availble in good editions, facsimile and modern, while there is still >>music >>waiting to be published that is left untouched by them? >> >>David >> >> >>***************************************** >>David van Ooijen >>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/ >>***************************************** >> >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> >> > > >
