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MUSC 229: Thinking about Music (HC)

Music 229: Thinking about Music: Ideas, History, and Musicology (Freedman) Fall 2021

Urtext Scores

Urtext Scores are scores with "musical text which reflects the composer’s intentions. The text is undistorted, meaning that neither the editor nor the publishing house have undertaken changes that might misrepresent it". 

 “What Is Urtext?” What is Urtext? / G. Henle Verlag. Accessed November 1, 2021. https://www.henle.de/us/about-us/what-is-urtext/.


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