I am not a Bach expert either, but isn't the Bach Gesellschaft supposed to be the purest edition? Here is a link to Amazon.com's listing of that edition of the Magnificat. I think it costs $11.00
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486288048/vocalistint00-20
For whatever it's worth...
David Grogan ETBU Music Marshall, Texas dgrogan@e... dgrogan@e...
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Author unknown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Mercedes" <dalila@R...> From: "Karen Mercedes" <dalila@R...> To: <vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com> To: <vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: [vocalist] Bach MAGNIFICAT editions
> I just bought a second of Bach's MAGNIFICAT in D, the Baerenreiter > edition. I've been working for years with the Edition Peters edition, and > I was *very* interested to see just how different these two editions are. > Where Edition Peters is extremely detailed in providing tempo markings and > dynamic markings, the Baerenreiter edition provides very few tempo > markings, and no dynamic markings. > > Given these are both good publishers, my question is this: who's right? > Are the tempo and dynamic markings in the Edition Peters version Bach's > own, or the editor's "suggestions"? Or was the Baerenreiter editor just > lazy? The Baerenreiter states that its score is based on the Neue > Bach-Ausgabe. There is no information in the Edition Peters score about > its provenance. > > I'm not even remotely a Bach expert, but I AM very curious about which of > these scores I should be working with. Any experts out there want to > weigh in? > > KM > ===== > My NEIL SHICOFF Website: > http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html > > My Website: > http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html > > ----- > We're sitting in the opera house; > We're waiting for the curtain to arise > With wonders for our eyes, > A feeling of expectancy, > A certain kind of ecstasy, > Expectancy and ecstasy....Sh's's's. > > - Charles Ives > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >
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