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In the last decades philological standards for reproducing the original form of a musical work taking into account historical musical traditions, composing and
by dmitrij 3y ago
In the last decades philological standards for reproducing the original form of a musical work taking into account historical musical traditions, composing and performance practices have become much more thorough. Editions from the 19th and early 20th century which you can find on IMSLP because they are out of copyright restrictions often don't meet these scholarly standards. They very often reflect performance practises and the style of their time. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtext_edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urtext_edition.
- wuiheerfoj 3y agoI’d add that some of the older texts are really badly laid out - often handwritten or in a strange typeface that makes them really hard to mentally parse when you‘re used to the uniformity of modern scores. That said imslp is still a life-saver and playing music would be a lot more painful (and expensive!) without it
- perihelions 3y agoBut – there are tons of prestigious, high-quality, Urtext editions on IMSLP, because https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Copyright_Made_Simple#Urtext_Editions https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Copyright_Made_Simple#Urtext_Ed... (copyright laws afford Urtext editions shorter terms of protection than original works)
- mavhc 3y agoIs there a standard file format for scores? I see MusicXML and MEI.
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