Rachmaninoff biography vocalise
Rachmaninoff biography vocalise and sound!
Looking at the topics of the by now more than 70 postings of this blog, most of them deal with questions of musical notation – accidentals, pitch or articulation and dynamics.
Rachmaninoff biography vocalise
This is of course not surprising, yet working with musical sources and producing correct and reliable music texts are central in our business.
But a further, hardly less important aspect in preparing an Urtext edition is also the accurate account of the composition’s genesis, which often takes a very winding course and is certainly very significant for evaluating the extant sources.
So on this as a rule there are in the forewords (prefaces) of our editions detailed accounts based on both the current state of musicological research and our own insights. Now for once today’s blog posting is to be devoted to the prefaces where so much fascinating and even new information lies waiting…
To serve as a current example can be our soon-to-appear, new edition of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, Op.
34, No.14 (HN 1237