Spanish C2 · Day 6
Day 6: Ediciones Urtext de música ibérica — Reduplicated concessive subjunctive formulas (part 2)
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- Grammar: Reduplicated concessive subjunctive formulas (part 2)
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Grammar point: Reduplicated concessive subjunctive formulas (part 2)
In a scholarly preface to an urtext edition, a reduplicated concessive subjunctive can make an editorial decision appear inseparable from the objections surrounding it. Consider «edite quien edite el manuscrito salmantino». Both occurrences are present subjunctive; the concession concerns whoever may yet edit the source.
Key vocabulary (8 of 20 words)
- la situación de las fuentes – the state of the surviving musical sources
- el autógrafo – manuscript written by the composer himself
- la edición príncipe – earliest printed edition
- la copia de imprenta – the fair copy prepared for printing the musical score
- la variante de transmisión – a reading kept in a work's written transmission
- la conjetura – editorial guess made without direct source support
- la enmienda – an editor's correction of a presumed error
- la memoria filológica – scholarly account documenting sources and editorial choices
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