Archive: June 2014 (2 Posts)

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Connecting to Samuel Barber: A young musician’s experience with a manuscript

June 30, 2014

The following is a guest post from Concert Office intern Rachael Sanguinetti As a young singer, Samuel Barber’s vocal works are a prominent part of my musical life. Barber’s English songs have been a part of my repertoire from my earliest years of voice lessons around age 15 and have remained with me through my …

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Sonneck’s Obsession and Putnam’s Pursuit: Commissioning Transcripts of Opera in Full Score

June 4, 2014

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post from Senior Music Specialist Susan Clermont. For nearly a millennium composers or their copyists wrote out musical scores and individual instrumental and vocal parts by hand, using a pencil or calligraphy pen, vellum or paper, and a ruler. This practice only recently began to change in the 1990s with …

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