Charles Rosen Quote

Normally, misprints are either easily corrected or else so trivial that it makes no difference whether we play the correct or the faulty version.... Nevertheless, on rare occasions, a misprint or slip of the pen may challenge our view of the musical language. These extreme cases may help us understand a little more about the way music acquires meaning, or what it means to say that the music makes sense.


Ch. 1 : The Frontiers of Nonsense - The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music (1994)


Normally, misprints are either easily corrected or else so trivial that it makes no difference whether we play the correct or the faulty version.......

Normally, misprints are either easily corrected or else so trivial that it makes no difference whether we play the correct or the faulty version.......

Normally, misprints are either easily corrected or else so trivial that it makes no difference whether we play the correct or the faulty version.......

Normally, misprints are either easily corrected or else so trivial that it makes no difference whether we play the correct or the faulty version.......