Since the string setting was done so much later, this would normally be treated as the composer's arrangement (of which there are numerous examples on the site). If they are actually different in some other way (order or movements, less or fewer measures, etc.) then it's a version and gets a level-four (4 equal-signs header). From your note, it appears that you updated the original setting when you made the string setting. If this is accurate, both instrumentations are version B (version A being the non-updated piece). We can handle two different scorings for different versions now.
| Posted at 23:29, 23 September 2012 by Carolus (administrator) |
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One factor is that the original instrumentation includes a synthesizer that has not been produced since the early 90s. The original version is in some sense an orphan, and I wrote the string version as a way of rescuing the piece. (I have no intention of releasing the original original, as in my mind it serves the function of a draft.)
That said, if you compare the two versions as they stand, the main structural differences you will see are in movements 2 and 3. In the original version movement 2 has repeated sections while in the string version the repeats are written out with different orchestrations. More striking, however, is movement 3. In the original it is a simple solo keyboard part, and all the complexity is designed into the synthesizer patch. By contrast, I had to write out something like that complexity in full in the string parts.
There is also one passage in movement 1 where I added a parts for the cello and bass that do not exist in the mixed instrumentation version.
I am unable to judge if those differences rise to the level of level-four. My main concern is that I would like the string version to show up in the "2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass" category. (Not the "(arr)" category.) As I mentioned in the forum the most famous close parallel situation I can think of is Mozart's string quintet arrangement of the c minor Serenade for winds, and that is actually 2 different pages on the site.
Thanks so much for your attention to details, and indeed, for all you do for this site. It is an amazing resource, and I feel privileged to participate.
Posted at 01:41, 24 September 2012 by Rpatters1
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I think they probably meet the criteria for level four, which is how I left them on the page. Since we now have the ability to tag so that there is more than one instrumentation without resorting to the "Arrangements and Transcriptions" tab and the headers which are read by the category walker (which was not the case when you first uploaded things here), it's possible to be a little more relaxed about the rule. Besides, we don't list Rimsky's version of Mussorgsky's Boris as an arrangement though it really is an arrangement - made after the composer was dead.
| Posted at 02:59, 24 September 2012 by Carolus (administrator) |
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