This blog’s reading had a few terms
to read about before our articles. Which went quite in-depth into the terms’ meaning,
use, and function in time. I was familiar with most of the terms like
autograph, facsimile, and sources. But holograph, urtext and overview were not
firmly defined in my head. I only put
overview for the length of information that came along with this definition
that I never thought about in terms of it’s practice through history. Urtext meaning orginal text was pretty easy
to wrap my head around. With holograph being no different being original manuscript.
I now really enjoy the word holograph, now that I know what it means.
The question: What’s the shelf life
of Urtext? Answered by Annette Oppermann
was a great post in helping provide function and purpose of urtext. Seeing the
revisions was quite entertaining. I’ve had pieces over the years where
practicing certain versions/revisions of the work needed if I wanted to mimic a
great recording of a soloist. Knowing what version they were performing on
would be vital to be able to look up.
The next link from G. Henle Verlag
was concerning a postcard from Brahms. Which turned into a detective story of
finding in what piece and where he was talking about in the postcard. I enjoyed
the pride in the publishers to stay on top of current research studies. The
Last article reading gave my eyes a bit of a blur. I tried to read the first
page and it looked weird, so I scrolled to the bottom and it hard gotten worst.
Luckily I found the page in English the 3rd time around….out of 3
pages. But it this also had to deal with Hungarian Dance no.5 by Brahms which
dived into a performance practice problem concerning the Vivace middle section.
But after his note to Tappert, it is common practice to how it should be
played.
Lastly we had two videos this week.
A lovely video that broke down how to bind a book as well as the craft needed
to make it. It was called “the art of making a book: Setting type, print and
binding by hand”. It was quite nice to watch, but the music almost put me to
sleep, but thanks to the process of the back binding, for being thrilling
enough to sway me back to the land of the living. The other video called “Upside
Down, Left to right: A Letterpress Film”, was my favorite. While I mainly
dreamed about using a letterpress system for a score and how nice it would feel
to get all the indentation to a score. It was nice to hear that letter pressing
is making a comeback.
Hey Dallas, nice writing! I will admit to being a little less educated than you on the definitions, but I found them equally helpful to read through. It's interesting that you've come across various editions of works, in my performance career I have yet to have that issue. Perks of being a tuba player?
ReplyDeleteI too found the letterpress videos very pleasing. In my own blog I wrote that I'd rather do this on a rainy Sunday than paint pots but that's just me. It was clear that he not only printed books but was also an artist with the system; there were many prints around that were abstract and wonderful to look at. The authenticity of letterpress is second to none, I would love if we had access to one here.