Critical Edition (Music)

Recommended Prerequisites

Sound music training. Good levels of both the Portuguese and English (mainly reading) languages.

Teaching Methods

Classes are organized to encourage the students’ active involvement in learning, fostering student teacher interaction.

The theoretical exposition will be illustrated with musical examples and documentation.

Presentation and discussion of work done by students on topics or texts previously indicated.

Learning Outcomes

General objectives:

- Encourage and foster research, to develop critical faculties, to understand the major critical edition aspects;

Specific objectives:

- Understand the main aspects of the problem of the critical edition;

- Master the steps of music editing;

- Master the methods and techniques of transcribing a musical source;

- Master the main editorial techniques;

- Present an editorial project.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- The dilemma of the critical edition - and problematic nature of musical sources;

- Steps of editing;

- Methods and techniques for music transcription;

- Editorial technique: critical apparatus and presentation of the final text;

- Approach of different case studies relevant.

Head Lecturer(s)

José António Pereira Nunes Abreu

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 100.0%

Bibliography

BENT, Margaret, “Editing early music: the dilemma of translation” Early Music, xxii/3, 1994, pp. 373-92.
BRETT, Philip, “Text, Context and the Early Music Editor” in Authenticity and Early Music: A Symposium, ed. Nicholas Kenyon, Oxford and New York, 1988, pp. 83-114.
BROWN, Howard Mayer, “Editing” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 6th ed., London, Macmillan, 1980, vol. 5, pp. 839-48.
CALDWELL, John, Editing early music, Oxford, Clarendon, 1985.
CARAPETYAN, Armen, “A Preface to the Transcription of Polyphonic Music,” Musica Disciplina 5, 1951.
FEDER, Georg, Music Philology, Monographs in Musicology nº 14, Pendragon Press, 2011.
GRIER, James, The Critical Editing of Music: History, Method, and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
GRIER, James, “Editing” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., London, Macmillan, 2001, vol. 7, pp. 885-95.