Edited score: Robert Simpson - Sonata for Violin and Piano
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Output identifier
- 4821239
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- Robert Simpson - Sonata for Violin and Piano
- Publisher
- Ricordi
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This score forms part of the new edition of the works of British composer Robert Simpson (1921-1997). The significance of this editorially scrupulous and legible score, published by Ricordi, is that it will enable and encourage further performances of this important work. Much of the highly indi-vidual music written by Simpson in the 1980s and 1990s was published by Alfred Lengnick & Co. Many of these scores have been available only in the form of photocopies of Simpson’s hand-written manuscripts, and while Hyperion Records managed to produce an award-winning series of recordings throughout the 1990s, these Lengnick manuscript photocopies are difficult to read and wholly unsatisfactory for performance purposes, thus hindering further dissemination of his music. Working in collaboration with Ricordi Berlin, Simon Phillippo has been producing new performance editions of a selection of major works by Simpson for piano and chamber ensembles. The creation of these editions has involved more than faithful typesetting from handwritten scores. Founded on research Phillippo undertook at Cambridge University in the late 1990s, his knowledge of Simpson’s compositional procedures has been required to interpret the many ambiguities and errata in the composer’s notation. In support of this process, he has consulted the original pencil manuscripts held in the British Library, along with audio material stored in the Simpson archive at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The aim throughout has been to present scores which are immediately practical, and yet which constitute an accurate, urtext-level account reflecting understanding of the compos-er’s musical intentions. Notes and detailed prefaces are added to clarify editorial decisions, thus allowing the performer to make alternative judgements.
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- Non-English
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