This study examines how editing might utilize an understanding of underlying paradigms or
epistemes of systems of knowledge in its critical approach to past sources of notated music …

In the study and performance of early musical repertories, few elements have been so
discussed and have evolved so much as the interpretative and representational aspects of …

The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound.
But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life …

To what in the original text should a translation be faithful—to the author's terminology by the
use of cognates?—to the syntax?—to sentence-structure and paragraphing?—to the …

Editing Music in Early Modern Germany argues that editors played a critical role in the
transmission and reception of Italian music outside Italy. Like their counterparts in the world …

Foucault observes that one cannot theorize about" editions" without first having a theory of"
works." However, the edition-work relationship operates in both directions: how one …

It goes without saying that scholarship on late medieval music notation continues unabated.
Whether on the interpretation of so-called cut signs in 15th-century manuscripts, 1 the …

In 1996 John Milsom published an influential article in which he drew attention to the
particular challenges for the editor of working with printed sources of early music—problems …

Music shorthand systems devised by Michel Woldemar, Hippolyte Prévost, and August
Baumgartner adapted the quill strokes of speech stenography to the seemingly analogous …

Early music studies do not always rank high on the agendas of university music departments
these days. There are of course exceptions, a recent one in Britain being the appointment of …