Errata in the First
and Second Printings
of Inside Early Music
by Bernard D. Sherman
(Oxford University Press, 1997)
p. 3, second paragraph: Rosen
quote should have no comma after "musicians": it should read, "musicology
is for musicians what ornithology is to the birds" .
p. 7, penultimate paragraph: Zuckerman quote should have ellipses (...) after
the word "farce" and before the three asterisks
p. 7 footnote 21: Fanfare 14 (not 13), 1991 (not 1990)
p. 11, line 11, fourth word from the end add "the" before "principle":
it should read, "..preconceptions; but the principle may have..."
p. 17 line 12-- "privilege" should be in past tense: the text should
read, "privileged the evidence they liked"
p. 44, first question: Delete "it was Billboard's "Classical
Disc of the Year" for 1994, as Ladymass had been for 1993";
end sentence with "Illusion]."
p. 90, last sentence: add the word "studied" at the end: "every
culture so far studied."
p. 91, last complete bullet point (2nd line before footnotes}: after "mental
modules" and before the closing period, add the following clause: "that
can operate normally only when the associated genes do"
p. 236, first
complete answer, "Tod" should be spelled "Tot."
p. 255, first paragraph, next-to-last line: "Ariodante" should be
in italics with initial cap.
P. 289-90: Footnote 23 should be replaced with the following:
Rifkin’s logic can be expressed in a syllogism. The major premise is that a
voice part of the type Bach provided his singers–a part that included all the
movements, both solo and choral, for its particular range–was meant for a single
performer only. The minor premise is that in all but a few of Bach’s surviving
cantatas and similar works only one part was written out for each of the voice
ranges. If both premises are accepted, the conclusion is obvious: Bach used
a solo quartet to sing the choruses.
The minor premise,
that Bach usually prepared only one part for each range, is the standard view
among Bach scholars. It is Rifkin's major premise that is revolutionary. Scholars
have long believed that Bach’s singers shared their parts, typically in groups
of three–a principal singer, who sang everything in the part, and two supporting
“ripienists,” who joined in the choruses and chorales. According to Rifkin,
there is no real evidence for this practice, either in documents or in the parts,
which consistently fail to provide reliable cues for when ripieno singers should
enter and exit, even in situations that seem to demand such cues. He adds that
a substantial number of parts show signs of having been intended for use by
one singer only. Several bear character designations (“Anima,” “Jesus,” “Phoebus”),
and some indicate solo singers in the list of forces on the wrapper in which
Bach kept the parts (the vocal scoring for BWV 56 reads “S. A. T. &Basso
Con[certato]”). Even the provision of special ripieno parts for some works reveals,
says Rifkin, that single voices read from the principal parts–and in several
instances, Bach added the ripieno parts at revivals of works that originally
did not include them.
Butt, in his Bach: Mass in B Minor (p. 40), writes, “although [Rifkin’s] view continues to be opposed by some of the most important figures in Bach research, there have been no convincing arguments, based on meticulous source-study, actually to prove him wrong.” George Stauffer disputes this in the Journal of Musicological Research 12 (1993), pp. 257—72, but Rifkin replies in the same journal, 14, (1995), pp. 223-34. See also Robert Marshall’s “Bach’s Chorus: A Reply to Rifkin,” The Musical Times 124 (January 1983), pp. 19—22, and Rifkin’s response in the March, 1983 issue, pp. 161-62.
p. 333, last
complete answer from Levin, third line, has a comma fault. Correction should
remove the comma after the words "tell them the trick to doing" --
it should read "tell them the trick to doing it in five sentences,"
p. 334, only question from the interviewer, second line: "contributed in"
should read "contributed to."
p. 350, musical example: add E-flat major key signature before "2/4",
i.e. add "flat" symbols in the space between top and second staff-lines
and on the middle staff-line and in the space right above the middle staff line.
p. 392, second paragraph, last sentence: remove the word "not": The
sentence should read, "And his unapologetic conviction does bear on his
artistic success."