Kildeudgivelse og tekstkritik i forskellige traditioner:Bidrag til en konference afholdt af Nordisk Netværk for Editionsfilologer 8.-10. november 2019

Kildeudgivelse og tekstkritik i forskellige traditioner, red. af Annette Lassen, Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen & Kirsten Vad (Publication of primary sources and textual criticism in different traditions, ed. by Annette Lassen, Krista Stinne Greve Rasmussen & Kirsten Vad), Nordisk Netværk for Editionsfilologer. Skrifter. 14, 146 pp., Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark. ISBN 978-87-408-3458-1 The present volume consists of six papers presented at a conference arranged by the Nordic Network for Textual Critics (Nordisk Netværk for Editionsfilologer) that took place in Copenhagen November 8–10, 2019. In the first article Elizabeth Svarstad and Margrethe Støkken Bue present the different systems of dance notation that has been used since the 15th century. While dance notation enables the preservation and distribution of past works, the article shows how dance notation is still undergoing development adjusting to the advancement in dance composition that it is set to record. Barbro Wallgren Hemlin discusses how critical editions often are interdisciplinary. Hemlin’s edition of Esaias Tegnér’s ecclesiastical speeches is both critical and enriched with cultural-historical commentaries, which makes it useful for a wide group of scholars, researchers and common people with an interest in Tegnér. Axel Teich Geertinger discuss musical textual criticism and he describes the issues that can arise within critical editions of music notation e.g. choice of primary sources. He argues that the term music philology is to be preferred instead of the more common edition technique. Esbjörn Nyström presents a literary approach to the editing of opera-librettos in which the text of the composition is handled in relation to the literary text. The article contributes to fundamental discussions of the concept of text and gives a thorough introduction to the editing of librettos. Brian Møller Jensen accounts for the principles behind the four-volume edition of Lectionarium Placentinum and presents how he discovered three ...