Announcing The Music Treasures Consortium
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Re: Announcing The Music Treasures Consortium
This is an important development. It will be nice to have lots of really cool stuff gathered, as it were, under one roof. Take a look at the Mahler 3rd Symphony full score from the Harvard collection. It is FILLED with corrections of the kind that Mahler typically inserted into his scores. It shows how he, as a conductor, approached his own pieces. This type of score is always a revelation, since the changes pop out at you (they're in red ink) and you don't have to shuffle through some report in a critical edition score to find them.
Also take a look at the opening melody of the Adagietto of Mahler's 5th Symphony available in Mahler's manuscript score from the Morgan Library. The melody has a different shape than you're familiar with. Unfortunately the link to Alma Mahler's copy of the Symphony (in which the familiar Adagietto melodic line does occur) at the New York Public Library already seems to be broken (typical NYPL behavior, this).
Let's hope that Harvard eventually sees fit to include its copy of what must be the first printed edition of Stravinsky's Scare with the original scoring. Among other things there's a scrape on the guero in the last bars that doesn't appear in any other edition (not even the Sacre score already posted by Harvard). This scrape, which I think is quite effective, was incorporated by Bernstein in both of his recordings (he graduated from Harvard). And there's much more at Harvard, especially if items from their rare-book library (Houghton) will eventually be included.
--Sixtus (Harvard '76)
Also take a look at the opening melody of the Adagietto of Mahler's 5th Symphony available in Mahler's manuscript score from the Morgan Library. The melody has a different shape than you're familiar with. Unfortunately the link to Alma Mahler's copy of the Symphony (in which the familiar Adagietto melodic line does occur) at the New York Public Library already seems to be broken (typical NYPL behavior, this).
Let's hope that Harvard eventually sees fit to include its copy of what must be the first printed edition of Stravinsky's Scare with the original scoring. Among other things there's a scrape on the guero in the last bars that doesn't appear in any other edition (not even the Sacre score already posted by Harvard). This scrape, which I think is quite effective, was incorporated by Bernstein in both of his recordings (he graduated from Harvard). And there's much more at Harvard, especially if items from their rare-book library (Houghton) will eventually be included.
--Sixtus (Harvard '76)