Spectrum of European Music Theatre in Separate Editions
Along with their importance for music theatre history, the decisive criterion for the choice of works to be edited was the editorial issues each presented. Accordingly, the compositions have been grouped into modules, whose titles indicate the categories dealt with throughout the edition.
Musical and Textual Parody
Transfer and Transformation
Performance Practice and Interpretation
Speaking and Singing
Beyond Opera
The project for “development of tools for digital forms of scholarly music editions,” sponsored since the beginning of 2006 until June 2012 by the DFG, has ever since been an attempt to work out the requisites for durable and platform-independent digital music-edition standards. Central to this are new forms of historic-critical editions, each of whose specific problems will be considered in close cooperation with existing and recently started complete editions and philological edition projects.
The tools developed are thus conceptualized as open-source tools for representing the results of editorial work, as well as also modularly constructed editorial tools that permit an efficient application of new technologies in music philology – if nothing else than to reach a better application of scholarly findings in musical praxis.
Below please find excerpts from the Edirom which is part of the first volume “Prima la musica e poi le parole”
From the main navigator (top right) each desired item may be opened separately. Individual readings from the music and the text editions as well as from the sources are accessed by clicking on the red icons. For each individual reading all relevant sources are displayed in windows, enabling a direct comparison and overview. All windows have zoom and navigation capabilities.
A synoptic view of music and text editions searched either by numbers, scenes, measures or text is made possible by an interconnecting concordance tool which offers navigation by mouse click. The linked text of the edition leads to a commentary window, which, in this example, explains Salieri’s use of quotations.
The following purchasing options are available for this edition:
Purchase of individual volumes at retail sales prices
Standing order (a price advantage of approx. 15 %)
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A strong plot, and fabulously imaginative music: but until now Handel’s “Giustino” has not been one of his most frequently-performed operas. With the new edition this could all change.
Franz Schubert’s stage works have never become firmly established in the repertoire. And yet they contain interesting examples of Romantic opera aesthetics. And with the 2028 Schubert anniversary year in mind, they offer a variety of opportunities for productions.
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