Keeping score: why are the scores of underrepresented composers riddled with mistakes?

Elena Urioste and Tom Poster
Friday, July 14, 2023

Violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster discovered hundreds of mistakes in the scores they ordered for performances and recordings of works by Florence Price and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Here they explore why this issue is so pervasive and just how damaging these inaccuracies can be for the sector as a whole

In one case, Urioste and Poster found, the publisher had scanned an older edition into a computer, and never corrected the resulting errors the computer had made ©Adobe Stock
In one case, Urioste and Poster found, the publisher had scanned an older edition into a computer, and never corrected the resulting errors the computer had made ©Adobe Stock

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