NOTATIO

OCTO. said: 1. Fermatas = I see it as the composer's enjoyment in writing them wide (not intentionally to mean "wide"). Just the pen feels good and scratch well on the paper. There happen to be many fermatas in this sonata; in fact there are nine in my autograph example above. All of them ...

Peter, thank you for your clear presentation of some of the other sides of this issue, with which I am in complete agreement.

Not exactly the reaction I expected, but let's go with it, because it deals with some very fundamental issues crucial to this forum. DatOrganistTho, with that reasoning, no one would play any music that is notated, because there isn't a single element in that isn't left up to the player's judgement ...

Measures 11 of this example from the autograph of Haydn’s Piano Sonata no. 52 (62) contains unique notation: Haydn Sonata MS.jpg The chord in the next to last measure on the first line is to be rolled in a special way, starting with two notes in the LH against one in the RH and then continuing in a ...

David, that did occur to me and does concern me, but I think they need to find a new business model rather than relying on residuals to keep them afloat. Free access to and use of newspaper archives would seem to be a given in a free and open society.

David, haha, yes, "McMansion" would be lost in Scotland. I had wondered if the term had caught on internationally; that it has not is hopeful. Here, it is hard to buy a home without it being one or close to one. They have more gables than the House of Seven Gables, more turrets than a Medi...

As a case in point, I wanted to post an excerpt about Arnold Arnstein from an article in the New York TImes Magazine from 1966 concerning the premiere of Barber's Anthony and Cleopatra. I am probably the first person who ever approached them about excerpting the several paragraphs from this longish ...

Ravel was definitely the cool Impressionist (as opposed to the warmer Debussy). I once heard Guido Agosti, (the pianist, adjudicator and completer of the Cortot edition of Chopin) say that he was present when Ravel expressed a lack of approval of a performance of Ondine that was done Romantically. T...

The celeste additions in Ondine give it the J. Williams touch, Knut. Don't you like Star Wars? :) But seriously, I agree with all of your comments: harp harmonics would be lovely for the solo, somewhat like those in the 1st movement of the Ravel Piano Concerto. The Peters edition terminates the peda...

Drats. Anything that one can think of has already been done. Wikipedia says that Gaspard was also orchestrated by the conductor Eugene Goosens in 1942! YouTube has the Constant, which is good as orchestration and somewhat faithful to Ravel's style, but seems very heavy to me (so much brass) and lack...