Dear Ralf,
Prima la musica is a very reputable small publishing firm (one man I
think - Brian Clark) producing limited runs of specialist early music
editions. I'd guess the ARR tag is used, as by other commercial
publishers, to try and ensure they are paid a royalty when anyone uses
their edition for public performance or commercial recording. This
practice has, I think, become even more widespread since the court
case a few years ago involving Hyperion records.
I'm not taking sides - merely giving what may be the reason for the
practice.
MH
--- On Mon, 9/5/11, R. Mattes <r...@mh-freiburg.de> wrote:
From: R. Mattes <r...@mh-freiburg.de>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar continuo example
To: "Rockford Mjos" <rm...@comcast.net>, "Monica Hall"
<mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Monday, 9 May, 2011, 19:53
On Mon, 9 May 2011 12:56:20 -0500, Rockford Mjos wrote
> Kremberg and others assume a guitar tuned in D so, of course, a
> transposing part would mean thinking E-tuned guitar shapes on a D
> instrument (for example).
And the spinetta is also a transposing instrument?
Might well be parts written for instruments at different pitch levels
(not unheard of even in Bach's time).
> When I play continuo on guitar I transpose out of range bass lines
> (in my head) as needed.
Looking at the parts, I think there's plenty of bass already.
> I also wonder about the "Tacet" instructions. On some parts I see
> "Spinetta tacet", but not "chitarra tacet". In the shared chitarra/
> spinetta part "Spinetta tacet" appears to be crossed out.
>
> I came across the beginning here, though it does not show the
> Spinetta to be a transposing part, nor that Chitarra is also listed
> (first!) on that part. (Perhaps preface material or edition notes
> address these oversights.)
> [1]http://www.primalamusica.com/PDFs/APR09/ALB001.pdf
> [2]http://www.primalamusica.com/albrici-3030-0.html [chitarra not
> mentioned here, either]
What an obnoxious edition! "All rights reserved" - yeah, right!
They probably bought the performance rights from Signore Albrici
himself.
Cheers, Ralf Mattes
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