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Tue May 12 10:46:28 EDT 2009

Mark Dove --
    This is some good info on UrText. Also, Goggle UR to find references. As I remember, the UR lectures were inventions of E.I. to celebrate the various kinds of humanness in the world. Also, Beverly and I have lecture notes from Academy and the Human Development Projects. 
    Bill and Beverly Salmon

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The original text, as of a musical score or a literary work.

[German : ur-, original; see Ursprache + Text, text (from Middle High German, from Late Latin textus); see text.]

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'Original text': term applied to a modern printed edition of earlier music in which the aim is to present an exact text without editorial additions or alterations. 

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Urtext, the German term for an original version of a text, usually applied to a version that is lost and so has to be reconstructed by textual criticism. Some scholars believe that Shakespeare's Hamlet is based on an earlier play that has not survived even in name; this hypothetical work is referred to as the Ur-Hamlet.

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  For uses of the term not related to editions of music, see Urtext. 
An urtext edition of a work of classical music is a printed version intended to reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material. Other kinds of editions distinct from urtext are facsimile and interpretive editions, discussed below.

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        a.. 1 Preparing urtext editions 
        b.. 2 Types of editions 
        c.. 3 The value of urtext editions 
        d.. 4 List of publishers who issue urtext editions 
        e.. 5 References 
        f.. 6 See also 
        g.. 7 External links 

Preparing urtext editions
The sources for an urtext edition include the autograph (that is, the manuscript produced in the composer's hand), hand copies made by the composer's students and assistants, the first published edition, and other early editions. Since first editions often include misprints, a particularly valuable source for urtext editions is a copy of the first edition that was hand-corrected by the composer. Where the sources are few, or misprint-ridden, or conflicting, the task of the urtext editor becomes difficult. Cases where the composer had bad penmanship (for example, Beethoven), or revised the work after publication, likewise create difficulties.

A fundamental problem in urtext editing is how to present variant readings. If the editor includes too few variants, this restricts the freedom of the performer to choose. Yet including unlikely variants from patently unreliable sources likewise serves the performer badly. Where the editor must go farthest out on a limb is in identifying misprints or scribal errors. The great danger-not at all hypothetical-is that an interestingly eccentric or even inspired choice on the composer's part will be obliterated by an overzealous editor. Responsible editors identify with footnotes all places where the notes have been altered in an urtext edition.

As cellist Dimitry Markevitch has said, "an ideal [urtext] edition cannot be achieved; only an honest one can be the goal."

Types of editions
Urtext editions differ from facsimile editions, which simply present a photographic reproduction of one of the original sources for a work of music. The urtext edition adds value to what the performer could get from a facsimile by integrating evidence from multiple sources and exercising informed scholarly judgment. Urtext editions are also easier to read than facsimiles. Thus, facsimile editions are intended mostly for use by scholars, along with performers who pursue scholarship as part of their preparation.

Urtext editions also differ from interpretive editions, which offer the editor's personal opinion on how to perform the work. This is indicated by providing markings for dynamics and other forms of musical expression, which supplement or replace those of the composer. In extreme cases, interpretive editions have deliberately altered the composer's notes or even deleted entire passages. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many famous performing musicians provided interpretive editions, including Harold Bauer, Artur Schnabel, and Ignacy Paderewski. Today, teachers seldom recommend interpretive editions to their students, preferring urtext editions. However, in the days before recorded music, such editions served the purpose of helping students obtain inspiration from the performing practice of leading artists, and even today they retain value for this purpose.

A compromise between urtext and interpretive editing is an edition in which the editor's additions are typographically distinguished (usually with parentheses, size, greyscale or detailed in accompanying prose) from the composer's own markings. Such compromise editions are particularly useful for early music, where the interpretation of the musical notation of long ago often poses difficulties.

The value of urtext editions
The very term "urtext" has fallen into disfavor among some critics and scholars, probably because it is perceived as overselling what an edition can accomplish. Plainly, the fidelity with which a printed edition can represent the composer's intentions must vary, and is never total. Moreover, the composer's intentions themselves are not completely well defined.

Yet performers of classical music use the term "urtext" frequently, because they usually value urtext editions highly. It is plain that knowing the composer's intent is only the starting point in the preparation of an effective musical performance; a great deal of independent thought and practice is necessary as well. But most musicians today would judge that the process should begin with the most faithful version of the composer's intent that scholarship can muster.

List of publishers who issue urtext editions
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  b.. G. Henle Verlag 
  c.. OKM Publishers 
  d.. Edition Peters 
  e.. Wiener 
  f.. Könemann 
  g.. Breitkopf & Härtel 
  h.. Editio Musica Budapest 
  i.. Schott 
  j.. Carus-Verlag 

References
  a.. See the entries under "Urtext" and "Editing" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001, New York: Grove). 

See also
  a.. Scholarly method 

External links
  a.. Comments on urtext editions from the C. F. Peters publishing house 
  b.. Comments on urtext editing by Patrice Connelly 
Web sites of publishers who issue urtext editions:

  a.. G.Henle Verlag edition 
  b.. Wiener edition 

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  Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:21 AM
  Subject: [Oe List ...] Helpful books on White and Tan Urs

  I need some recommended books that deal with the deeps of cultural understanding for both the Tan and White Urs.  Where did the word "ur" come from.  Any help would be appreciated.  Mark Dove

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