Talk:Sidney Beck

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I think Sidney Beck might have or still be a very important figure in American music and seems to have some connection with Harvard and New York big concert life as well as writing the broken consort bible, but I cannot find any reliable information about him.


 * LCCN and WU Necrology confirm he died in 2001; might have, ok. Maybe. Schissel | Sound the Note! 22:28, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

First modern editions?
and first to revive the broken consort? I was under the impression the composer/musicologist Ernst Hermann Meyer had a hand in some of that, during his stay in England during WW2 (while writing English Chamber Music: From the Middle Ages to Purcell and editing a number of scores from Oxford mss. etc. etc. ... - it's quite possible I'm mistaken, but the statement in this article as I found it requires, at the least, documentation and support (no, not proof, but evidence, without which it becomes another first-ness assertion out in midair.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 22:28, 14 May 2013 (UTC)