Re: 19th-cent. accidental notation

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 02/18/2013 03:17 AM, Luca Rossetto Casel wrote:
> Yes, in most cases brackets are indeed unnecessary. But I know some
> over-accurate editions that aim to reproduce the original text as faithfully as
> possible, giving evidence to every critical intervention - for example, the
> Ricordi critical edition of Verdi's works.

Well, Ricordi have a karma debt to pay after some of the very unfaithful 
editions they produced in the last century ... ;-)

Generally I think it's a good thing to be as clear as possible about editorial 
interventions, but I'm not sure that modernizing the _style_ of accidental 
placement really counts as an "intervention" in that sense.