The Novello is the Dart Edition, I belive, which is not too bad, but has way too many page turns! There is, to my knowledge, no suitable modern edition, but the Bartlett has at least most of the original marks. And way less page turns. I did find the missing chacony, which is a very funny story.
Another fun Dido tidbit is that the triplets are always performed at double speed, so that the opera is 2 beats shorter than composed. dt At 06:23 AM 10/26/2009, you wrote: > I'm using an edition by Novello. > > > > It might also give you a version that differs from the one that you > will be performing. There are a some editorial choices/additions > that are made in Dido; > > > I didn't know there were numbers with guitars, nice to know. My > decision to use a guitar is simply because it is the only baroque > instrument I have! However I noticed that the opera has many nice > places to use the guitar (chorus and dances). > > indeed, if I remember right, the numbers with > "gittars," indicated in the 1689 Josiah Priest school libretto, are > not in the surviving score, which dates from at least 50 years > later, > and have to be added (by repeating the music from vocal numbers or > some other way). So proceed with caution if you're going to use > some > other version. > > That's what I am about to do... > > Safer to take the time to photocopy and cut up the part (after using > the lower parts to figure the bass). > > -- > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > >References > > 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
