Questions about several published _editions_ of the same musical piece. They can have diverging sources, music, fingerings, indications, ...
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When editing/transcribing music of the Baroque period is it considered good practice to modernize key signatures and clefs?
As a hobby (and for my personal edification), it seems like a fun challenge to transcribe a few Baroque music manuscripts into a more readable form, and maybe post the results to imslp.org or something. Is it okay to change the old Dorian key…
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Is there a misprint on this note in the Maple Leaf Rag?
When I play bar 11, it sounds off. Compare to bar 15, you can see that the 2nd chord for the left hand is different. Is the second chord for the left hand in bar 11 a mis-print?
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What kind of edition and tuning to use to study Bach's fifth cello suite ?
As is well known, this suite was composed for a cello with a scordatura tuning C-G-d-g instead of the classical C-G-d-a.
I have seen almost every possible combination:
edition for specially-tuned cello in "sounding" notation
edition for…
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Sibelius op .75 Number 5: is the composer a bit sloppy, is my edition a bit sloppy, or am I missing something
In my edition of this piece, there's very specific (Ped) (*) markings, which suggests to me that the composer is laying out all the pedalling.
However, a bit after the Forte/fermata in the long section without measure bars, he seems to have slacked…
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Was Cortot right about Etude op. 10 no. 1?
I was reading through Cortot's edition of Chopin's op. 10 no. 1 etude "Waterfall" (link) and on bar 25 (page 10) he gives this note:
referring to these bars:
I was shocked to see this because I have always thought this particular section sounded…
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Who decides chord details in published songs?
I like to make lead sheets of songs like this to learn to improvise from, condensing the published sheet music down to a single page with no turns. In working from my two copies of It's Only A Paper Moon I ran into this difference
It's a subtle…
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Extra notes (triplets) in a Bach manuscript?
My question relates to an answer by @Peter to this earlier question Different versions of mordents in Bach Invention No. 1 In C Major, BWV 772
Here's what we usually see
However, in Peter's answer, we see a manuscript (by Bach himself?) that shows…
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How are editorial additions/changes to a score indicated?
How do music editors indicate changes they've made to a score?
Sometimes an editor will make musically meaningful changes to a score, such as
Adding markings the editor believes were omitted by the composer or previous editors;
Modifying notes the…
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How accurate are the pedal indications of Bach - Busoni, solo piano works?
In the massive edition of Bach's solo piano works by Ferruccio Busoni with the complete name of Busoni-Ausgabe (Klavierwerke) in 25 volumes (Joh. Seb. Bach. Klavierwerke unter Mitwirkung von Egon Petri und Bruno Mugellini. Herausgegeben von…
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Spurious note in "Für Elise" (D in measure 76)?
Back in the olden days, when I walked to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways, I learned "Für Elise" out of Suzuki Piano School Volume 5. In m. 76 (third measure in the below image), there is a lovely E7 chord.
Imagine my horror and dismay…
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Acciaccatura vs Appoggiatura in Beethoven
While studying the 2nd movement of Beethoven's Sonata Op.90, I found these appoggiaturas in bars 28-29.
This is the Henle edition (which I find to be one of the most reliable editions for Beethoven); the appoggiatura can also be found in the 1815…
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Editing larger sound files in Kontakt 5
I am using NI Kontakt 5 sampler editor. And when I try to delete some unnecessary sounds, the program starts to act like it's working on the removal, but nothing happens.
This happens only with large files .wav above 30 MB
When editing small sound…
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How is that possible that a same song is presented as 3 different scores?
How is that possible that a same song is presented as 3 different scores for piano, by the same author?
Let's consider Snow White - Whistle While You Work:
In this link we have:
In this scan, from book "Disney Princess", words by Larry Morey,…
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How accurate is the von Bulow edition of the Beethoven piano sonatas?
I'm wondering whether or not the Hans von Bulow edition is scholarly and accurate or not.I'm aware that Liszt favored it as his students recollect that he only used that edition when teaching the sonatas and obviously an urtext is probably the…
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Pros and cons of Urtext edition
An Urtext edition is one that adheres as much as possible to the original composer's manuscript (or when that is lost, early editions). Of course, it is a good thing to know the score not yet interpreted by editors, and it seems better that the…
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