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Postby daphnis » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:46 pm

Philip, this is an excellent contribution. Thanks very much!
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Postby pml » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:59 pm

Glad you like it! A pity the Orff won't be available for some time yet, but I believe his rather wealthy and much younger widow enjoys receiving the cheques from Schott Music. One thing that particularly amuses me, where the rowdy drinking songs “in taberna” are concerned, is that there is clear water damage to those pages. Evidently “spillage” was just as much a problem in the 13th century: plus ça change, ...

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Postby daphnis » Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:18 am

No doubt was their version of a bar napkin.
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Postby Lyle Neff » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:45 am

Or one of the "water" marks on P.D.Q. Bach's manuscripts.
"A libretto, a libretto, my kingdom for a libretto!" -- Cesar Cui (letter to Stasov, Feb. 20, 1877)
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