Principer, frågor och problem i musikvetenskapligt editionsarbete

Exempel från pågående inventerings-, editions- och utgivningsprojekt

Abstract

Principles, questions and problems in the process of musical editing. Examples from current inventory and edition projects This article constitutes concurrently a research report, with examples from ongoing and finished projects, and a point of departure for discussing methodological, theoretical and practical problems connected with the critical editing of music in Sweden. The authors identify and investigate some general complexities encountered in the process of assessing musical sources and preparing a critical edition, proposing how terminology, procedures and critical methods from classical philology can be applied to musical source material. It is suggested that editing involves an interpretative engagement with sources and their contexts, and that this engagement ought to be guided primarily by collective scholarly familiarity with previously more fully investigated sources and contexts. The cases studied serve to demonstrate how pertinent scholarly methods of codicology, palaeography, graphology and the analysis of musical style can contribute not only to editorial procedure and the specific aims of critical editing but also provide a deeper understanding of the continuing role and purpose of philology in all branches of historical musicology today.