Hello, I thought this might be of interest to some who transcribe old/ancient editions of music, or to those who have a general interest in things like 'composers intent'.
This is a single lecture - contains full transcript and video as well as audio (reading the transcript it is obvious that some reference to 'projected' material is being made during the lecture - so maybe the video would be better - but just having the transcript doesn't really detract). Anyway: Overview: Musical notation is both inexact and changeable; the assumptions of one period may be lost on following generations, and the greater part of written music still remains unpublished at the present day. The challenges of editing and presenting a text, either of a well-known classic or of an unknown writer differ in music from those faced in the similar worlds of literature or Biblical criticism. The dilemmas created by composers' second thoughts and revisions, and disciples' 'improvements' require a 'correct' way of presenting obsolete information to the modern performer and raise questions which can both change our attitude to familiar works and resurrect forgotten treasures. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/from-composer-to-printed-page There are also a lot of other interesting Music-related (as well as other diverse subjects - I stumbled across this while stumbling (I do a lot of stumbling on the internet it seems!) over an interesting lecture on the history of food publications. Regards James _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
