> Could anybody give his/her opinion about this issue: > > > > At the moment I am analysing the Kapsperger 1611 lute book for my Doc. > dissertation. All the musical examples will be written with Django tab > writer adding (automatically) its transcription. My question is: should > the transcription be written on a single or double staff (treble and > bass clefs)? I think that a single staff is more economical...
Ask yourself, why are you publishing a transcription at all? this is your 'first' book, it should have publication goals that guide the selection and editing of its content. The answer to that should dictate the format needed. A publisher will have some particular market in mind as he poses himself that question. You have your advisor and the committee to consider as well as a theoretical audience. A performing edition for guitarists should be in guitar staff notation or tablature for an instrument in e. A scholarly edition with emendations should be in whatever is used today for replica instruments, probably tablature; but maybe guitar staff (not transcribed for an e instrument), whatever would be welcomed by a modern player. if your audience is presumed to be academics, then you need to consider that keyboard proficiency is required at most music schools, so keyboard-proficient readers are in the majority; but the special nature of this music also needs consideration, it was originally published in tablature, for players of a particular instrument. If the music you are publishing is parts from larger context, then that context may enter the picture, you would then need orchestral score. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
