At 2:54 PM -0400 8/21/09, David W. Fenton wrote:
Certainly, French music printing in the early 18th century (for example) is very elegant and easy to read from, but a lot of MSS from the same period (and later) are very difficult and filled with inconsistencies and outright errors.
That's true of mss from ANY time period, of course. One of the first projects I got involved in when I entered Indiana as a grad student was the Voice of America recording of Dave Baker's "Black America: In Memoriam Martin Luther King Jr." Don Moses was the chorus master, but I got drafted to assist him because I was the only one who could read David's chicken scratchings! Just another indication that early full scores were for composers, not conductors, and were never intended to be used for conducting. And that one's copyist is a VERY important person! (Dave must have thought so; he married his copyist!!)
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