Odhecaton Corrections & Changes

Odhecaton Corrections & Changes June 2005

A Note on the Corrections

In 2001 Amherst Early Music published an Anniversary First Edition (black cover).

In 2003 we published a First Edition, Revised (blue cover).

In 2005 we published the Second Edition (green cover).

The Anniversary First edition was produced under great time pressure. It arrived in print with a number of mistakes; fortunately, relatively few were of the type that would affect how the piece sounds (wrong notes, wrong rhythms). Some of these mistakes lingered in the First Edition, Revised.

In both editions there were also a number of less-important infelicities: ficta and brackets that had slid to the wrong place, wrong range indications, typos in the critical notes, off-center breve rests, mistakes in the original-notation incipits at the beginning of each piece. Some of these were corrected in the First Edition, Revised, and the rest in the Second Edition. All the mistakes affecting the music are listed below as errata, but only the more important of the infelicities are listed.

With each edition, David Fallows, General Editor, also made small revisions in his critical notes to include the results of the latest 15-century music scholarship. For the Second Edition he has also written a new introduction.

--Valerie Horst, Production Director

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Key to the errata lists

49. = piece number

m. 19 = measure number

i = top voice, ii = second voice, etc.

Errata List for the 2001 Anniversary First Edition (black cover)

If you have this one, use this list only; it contains all the corrections for the First Edition and the First Edition, Revised.

1. m. 25 iii--F should be E.

4. m. 19 ii--half-notes A, C should be F, A.

5. m. 44 ii--quarter-note G should be a half-note G.

8. m. 24 iv--rhythm: last two notes should be a half-note and a half-note tied to a quarter note in m. 25, as in the upper parts. Pitches stay the same.

16. m. 56 ii--2nd note should be C.

17. m. 45 all parts--the final breves should be longs.

18. m. 21 ii--half-note E should be F.

19. m. 50 ii--breve rest should be whole rest plus a whole-note D

22. m. 38-39 ii--all three whole notes belong in m. 38; they are to be played 3-in-the-time-of 2 and so should have a bracket and a "3" over them.

30. m. 25 ii--should be G, A.

m. 26 ii--should be A.

37. m. 3 iv--D should be F.

49. 30 iv--whole-note A should be G.

51. m. 48 iii--missing measure should read: tied F half-note, quarter-notes D and E, whole-note C tied to whole-note C in m. 49.

m. 60 ii--quarter-note F should be a half-note.

52. m. 35-36 i--tie the F's, as in lower parts.

m. 37 iii--B should have a ficta flat over it.

m. 43 i--the A quarter-note tied from the previous measure should be a half-note.

mm. 42-43 i--The tied half-note A's should be a half-note tied to a quarter note;

m. 43 i--after the tied quarter-note A there should be more three quarter notes, G, F, E;

m. 43 i--the whole-note E should be a whole-note D.

54. m. 24 iii--D should be C.

57. m. 49 iii--should read: whole-note G, half-note G, half-note A.

m. 50 iii--should read: half-note B-flat, whole-note G, half-note B with a ficta natural over it.

58. m. 33 iii--D should be G.

67. m. 30 i--B needs a ficta flat over it.

69. m. 57 i--E needs a ficta flat.

83. mm. 14-15 ii--Remove flats from B's.

m. 17 i--Remove flat from E.

85. m. 29 i--flat-sign in the staff should be deleted because it does not appear in Odhecaton. (But the ficta flat in m. 28 should stay and should carry over into m. 29.)

m. 47 ii--natural sign should be above the note.

m. 61 i--natural sign should be above the note.

m. 66 ii--sharps should be above the notes.

87. m. 14 iii--natural should be above the note.

88. mm. 42-43 iii--tied F should be E.

92. m. 104 ii--half-note D should be E.

94. mm. 13-14 ii--the E-flat sign should be in the staff, not above it, because it appears in Odhecaton.

95. m. 10-11 i--should read: whole-note E, whole-note D tied to whole note D in m. 11.

Errata List for the First Edition, Revised (blue cover)

If you have this one, use this list only.