User talk:Pml

Latest news: Extremely busy. See my user page for a lengthy update and apologia. The next of my unfinished works to have been tackled (mid-to-late October 2008) was to have rounded off the Biber Requiem. Apologies (now in retrospect) to the poster who had wanted it ready for this year’s All Souls’ Day, just passed. It will now be postponed into the first half of 2009.

Unfinished projects as of November 2008

Yes, I know I have way too many irons in the fire... tell me about it...

Berlioz, Requiem, and other large choral works : on hold till 2009. Will load them into the new Sibelius and set about extracting PDFs etc.
Berlioz, Te Deum : Rather than wait to finish the 7th (orchestral) movement, the divisi wind parts of which are an utter utter pain, I'm very tempted to just issue the damn score without it (and republish it again if I ever have the patience to finish it). Many performances of the Te Deum omit this movement anyway, because the orchestration is quite different from the remainder: anyone got twelve orchestral harps? Mmm, right. I noticed someone already has attempted a VS.

Biber, Requiem was to have been done “next” as mentioned above, but now will have to be put off till 2009; as for the Missa Salisburgensis, if I were to attempt another movement, say the Gloria as I’d speculated earlier, it would still remain an an unfinished project even then (why go to the trouble of getting the instruments you need for it, if not to perform the whole work). It was also something of a lure to promote a big Biberfest here in Melbourne that have fallen through. Hence you may consider any further movements from this monster to be on indefinite hold. (There's one significant erratum in the Kyrie that must be fixed: one of the bass soloists loses an entry at “Christe eleison.” It’s easily fixed since there’s an exact repetition of the same entry in the continuo, and several bars later on.)
Borodin, Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor: final revisions still waiting on my Russian expert to proof my transliteration. Nick! When will you get this done? Fortunately, I will have the chance to berate him in the next day or so.
Brahms, Schickalslied : on hold, especially as there is now another edition on CPDL. There should be a slight revision of the German Requiem vocal score, occasioned by needing to remedy some small but significant lacunæ in the organ part that make it unsuitable for playing without the horn and trombone parts that my co-editor Andrew Raiskums had allocated in his arrangement.

Brian, Symphony 1 in d, »The Gothic« The upcoming UMP-HBS vocal score has not yet been handed over for proof-reading, even if I were in a position to be able to devote time to it.
Brian, Symphony 7 in C : not much of the critical edition work has been done yet, only the first movement, and I have had no news from the proof-reader in England. If it takes less than the six years it took for HC Robbins Landon to prepare his critical report for Mozart’s last three symphonies, I’ll be a very happy chappy.

Bruckner, Mass in E minor (1882 version, full score) : again on hold.
Brumel, Missa Et ecce terræmotus : performing version complete, but not tidied up to my standards of perfection.

Handel, Dixit Dominus : The good news: Kalmus want to publish my edition! The bad news: I have to make a realisation of the keyboard continuo before they will (blecch).
Horsley, Suite from Euterpe : on hold, however this project may be handed over to the Horsley scholar, Richard Divall.
Legge, Opus 5 : short brass fanfare to be published over at IMSLP, sooner rather than later.

Mozart, K 427, Great Mass in C/minor : the only work that will be done before the end of 2008 is to issue the FS of the Kyrie and Gloria, and prepare the set of parts for just those two sections of the mass. To do list remains the same: complete [A2]-[A3] in full score; add figured bass to the organ part; realise the organ part; finish the VS; extract and cue the Px... PDF everything, then it might be all done...
Mozart, K 479, Maurerischer Trauermusik : typeset FS done, FS and Px to be published over at IMSLP.
Mozart, K 522, Ein musikalischer Spaß : typeset FS done, FS and Px to be published over at IMSLP.
Mozart, K 543, Symphony in E flat : 1st and 3rd movements done, 2nd movement needs to be put in, finish revising finale.
Mozart, K 626, Requiem urtext : need to add figured bass (I hate doing figuring almost as much as doing keyboard realisations, see above). One minor underlay error and an addition to one of the appendices.

Monteverdi, 1610 Mass : on hold. The Sop 1 part was the only one completed to my satisfaction, so the others S2/A/T1/T2/B and bassus generalis still need work. There’s another typeset out there, fortunately.
Monteverdi, Orfeo Acts 2–5, 1610 Vespers : I had hoped to get these really well knocked off sometime in 2006. It didn't happen. In the meantime, refer to Sabine Cassola’s excellent typeset of Orfeo. Various people have done individual movements of the Vespers here, but no one’s attempted the whole publication. It’s a lot of work.

Palestrina, 2 masses without Credo : adding the Credo to these two otherwise-complete masses is on hold. The Hanson Dyer library has now changed its rules, and even staff cannot borrow works from the “Complete Editions”, so I can no longer take items like this from the library.
Schubert, D 759, Symphony in B minor, have finished revision of the completion movements (Scherzo and Finale), so next go back and revise the familiar movements, the Allegro moderato and Andante con moto.
Vicentino, L'antica musica (weird Renaissance music utilitising 31 notes to the octave!): on hold. No one's been interested in performing these crazy things for 400 years, so I figure it can wait.

Philip Legge_{@ Φ} 09:30, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Like the new fancy signature?

Broken link

Hi Philip

One of the links to your busking book on Come again sweet love doth now invite (John Dowland) seems to be broken. Just thought I'd let you know. Bobnotts 04:42, 26 January 2007 (PST)

Ta, it was case sensitivity between "Come again" and "Come Again" that was the problem. Philip Legge _{♇ ℗ @ © Φ} 21:46, 18 February 2007 (PST)

Incorrect Link

Hi Philip,

Thanks for putting the TUMS songbook stuff on line. I used to sing in QUMS, and would love to be able to sing some of these songs again in a new choir. I was looking at "Lo How a Rose", but your edition seems to point to a different piece.

John.

Hi John,

I remember your name - did you go to Sydney Choral Festival in 1992? "Lo How a Rose" occupies the bottom half of the second page of score, after the Canzonetta by Vecchi. You might want to try downloading the entire PDF at TUMS Busking Book which has the table of contents, and you can pick and choose which bits you want to sing :)

Best regards, Philip

Brahms Requiem minor correction?

I think in the first movement, bar 130 there should be a precautionary natural on the C in the bass and pedal part Jonathang 18:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC)