Phonographischer Text, Interpretation und Aufführungsmaterial als kritisch edierbarer Sachzusammenhang. Ein Beitrag zur Theorie der Edition von Klangdokumenten

The article discusses possibilities and specific problems of including audio material in the realm of scholarly music editions. From this perspective, the authors propose to include the sounding manifestation of music both into the notion of the musical ‚work‘ and of the musical ‚text‘. The outcome of this thought experiment which considers music as performative art, Beethoven’s and other classical composers’ own wider notions of musical works as musical practice, phonographic recordings as text, different types of music as different types of data, programmed concordances as specific feature of digital editions, and musical interpreters as authors of musical interpretations is a theoretical model that for the first time makes record productions the object of scholarly critical edition.