I think the advantage to putting this info online, not just for musicologists with Case X access (the x files), is for the average musician/voice student who has ben fed dreadful versions of pieces-- pieces that could provide a terrific reason to study early music. Also, by putting it online, there would be a kind of reality check to save voice students from their teachers. To be clear, I advocate a free edition, with some alternate and usable accompaniments, with free or online facsimiles to open a discussion. There must be thousands of people who could be encouraged to study lute & continuo songs. dt
At 03:05 AM 3/24/2008, you wrote: >You've got a Xerox of the score in Modena, David. > >UC Berkeley Music f M2.8.R47 T7 UCB Case X > >And one of the librettos is on-line in digital format if you >subscribe to Gale. > >As far as I know, the song first appears with piano accompaniment >almost 100 years after the opera. Attr. to Pergolesi. There are >surely hundreds of >editions of that Italian Anthology. And of course it has since >been a favorite of every voice teacher. I used to blanche when I >sat on performance juries and saw the student with that >d ------ able Italian Anthology under arm.<g> You knew you were >in for "Nina" or "Amarilli, mia bella."<shudder> With >appropriate gestures. >=====AJN (Boston, Mass.)===== >Free Download of the Week To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
