The challenges of editing Geoffroy’s Pièces de clavecin. @johnmoraitis
The challenges of editing Geoffroy’s Pièces de clavecin.  @johnmoraitis
Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:26 The original manuscript
4:37 The transposed suites
6:13 Demonstration: Minuet in f minor and g minor
11:17 Peculiarities in notation
12:59 Demonstration: Chaconne in g minor
17:59 Copying and editing the music
20:02 Demonstration: Chaconne in f minor and g minor
28:40 The editions by Mary Tilton and Jacques Frisch
31:12 The edition by Pierre Gouin
33:06 “Modern” key signatures
34:26 Ordering of pieces
37:01 A stylistic discrepancy
38:33 Omission of transposed suites
41:43 Concluding remarks
45:25 Patreon information

Links:
Suite in f minor: youtube.com/watch?v=6zaMYWq_jts
Chaconne in g minor: youtube.com/watch?v=9Xd476TEkhg
Suite in b minor: youtube.com/watch?v=UZtCl4ybkTM
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