Robert Johnson Complete Works (Musica Scotica vol. 8)
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 1453736
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
- DOI
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- Title of edition
- Musica Scotica Vol VIII: The Complete Works of Robert Johnson
- Publisher
- Musica Scotica
- ISBN
- 978-0-9548865-8-5
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Work on the edition was started by Kenneth Elliott in the 1960s but his contribution remained unpublished at the time of his death in 2011. In July 2014 Moohan began preparing the edition for publication using Elliott’s papers as the starting point, concluding the work in 2018. Elliott left draft scores of the works, but without any coherent notes of his editorial decisions. Using Elliott’s drafts as a basis, Moohan transcribed and edited the works by consulting and evaluating all of the primary sources, making all of the editorial decisions, and presenting the scores in a version that meets rigorous academic standards while being accessible to performers. This involved consulting 125 manuscript and 8 early printed music sources along with contemporary literary and liturgical documents held in thirteen UK research libraries (supported by a £6436 grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016), and obtaining digital copies of six manuscripts in the New York Public Library and one in the Washington Folger Shakespeare Library (funded internally). The manuscript-based work enabled Moohan to produce the scores and the entire, detailed critical commentary (for which Elliot left no draft material) which includes an evaluation of all sources for each work with a list of variant readings. Six of the 37 works include Elliott’s reconstruction of the two missing voices for alternate ‘cantoris’ verses within Moohan’s fresh edition of the scores. The appendix contains five reconstructions by Elliott. During her research for the edition Moohan discovered one new incomplete work (2 out of 4 voices), and an incipit reference to another.
Moohan wrote the historical introduction having reviewed the secondary literature and examined archival material in Scotland and England not previously consulted. The assessment of Johnson’s music is Elliott’s, sense checked and edited by Moohan.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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