Urtextn.
/ˈʊətɛkst/, U.S. /ˈʊrˌtɛkst/ An original text; the earliest version. Also attributive or as adj.
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society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > original in relation to transcript
original1483
manuscript1607
antigraph1656
protograph1841
diploma1845
Urtext1932
vorlage1965
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 July 511/3 In these volumes..we have the nearest thing possible in Chopin's case to an Urtext.
1959 Cambr. Rev. 6 June 598/2 Authoritative editions allegedly based on urtexts.
1963 S. Weintraub Private Shaw & Public Shaw iv. 119 The earlier version still retains advocates, because of its more complete, ur-text quality, and the comfortable feeling that no Procrustean games were played with its vocabulary and sentence structure.
1974 Early Music 2 259/1 The edition is urtext, with prefatory staves, showing the original clefs and signatures.
1982 Times 2 Apr. 14/2 An urtext edition of the 21 Schubert piano sonatas.
1983 London Rev. Bks. 7 July 21/4 Elaborate versions often point back to the gospel of Mark as a kind of cryptic Urtext.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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