English Performing Edition of Sarum Office - First Installment Available
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
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    From: Gregorian@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Gregorian@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
    Of William Renwick
    Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 9:51 AM
    To: Gregorian@yahoogroups.com
    Cc: liturgy-l@yahoogroups.com
    Subject: [Gregorian] Music of the Sarum Office-English

    Seasons greetings to all:

    I am pleased to announce that the first installment of the English
    Performing Edition of Music of the Sarum Office is now available at
    http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~renwick/sarum-01.htm

    This first installment (over 250 pages!) contains the commencement of the
    Psalter. Subsequent installments are planned to appear in January and July
    of each year. The complete edition should run to approximately 5000 pages.

    The language of this edition conforms to that of the Book of Common Prayer,
    the King James Bible, and the Douay-Rheims translation of the Vulgate.

    A note about the pointing of the Psalms. The system used here is that of
    G.H. Palmer, as found in the Sarum Psalter and other publications. In
    essence each of the number 1-8 indicates the point at which the mediant or
    termination commences. The pointing has been amended from that found in
    Palmer's publications to follow more closely the traditional principles of
    text pointing.

    The English Edition currently underway is a "Performing Edition"; the
    scholarly apparatus is available in the Latin Edition; it is intended that a
    Scholarly English Edition will also appear in due course.

    Comments regarding the edition are most welcome. I would like to extend my
    thanks publicly to several persons who have helped tremendously in moving
    this work forward, without mentioning their names here.

    I would like also to point out that work on the draft of this edition is
    well along; should anyone be interested in a particular piece that is not
    yet publicly available, please contact me, and I will provide you with a
    pre-publication version if it is available.

    with thanks

    William Renwick
    renwick@mcmaster.ca
    School of the Arts
    McMaster University
    Hamilton Ontario CANADA L8S 4M2
    http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~renwick/wr.htm
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