Any clarifications or corrections to the Study Guide will be listed here.  You may also contact Deb Nelson, Program Coordinator, with any questions.

pp. iv, vii, 11 Correct title: Ricercar sopra Mi-Re-Fa-Mi (not Mi-Fa-Re-Mi) (However, either will be accepted at the Regional and State contests.)

p. 11 Correct instrumentation: organ (not harpsichord)

p. 9 Either spelling of canzon (canzon or canzone) is considered correct.

Please be aware that at the contest, excerpts may not even be played on the same instrument and may involve improvisatory changes to pitch and rhythm as compared with the pieces on the CDs. (This is especially true for works from early periods in which instrumentation is not specified and performers often improvised elaborations to the basic pitches and rhythms notated by the composer.) (See p. 63 of the Study Guide.) The instrumentation information at the top of the page refers to the music as it comes to us in manuscript or score format, not what is done on any given recording.

p. 39 Either spelling of fyer (fyer or fyre) is considered correct.

Note that composers spanning two style periods will be counted as correct for either period for the mystery round and for the tie breaker.  See the last paragraph on p. x:

The repertory in this year’s Guide also demonstrates how artificial arbitrary dates can be for defining style periods. Geography, cultural context, and composers’ personal development often play a larger role in defining the style of a given work than does the date of its composition. For that reason, many of the composers in this year’s Study Guide will qualify as representative of two style periods—a point with important implications for the contest’s Mystery Round, in which students must identify (by ear) the style period of works written by composers in the Study Guide.

p. iv, p. vii, p. 7 Victimae paschali (not pascali) is the correct spelling of the piece.