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After a year’s silence, I write to memorialize the following:

  • Every note that Rebecca Clarke wrote for performance and left in a performable state has now been published—admittedly, by six different publishers, but a Gesamtausgabe is a Gesamtausgabe, no matter how you slice it, and hello, Bach and Beethoven.
  • Every note that Clarke wrote for voices and left in a performable state has now been published and recorded.
  • Every note that Clarke wrote for instruments and left in a performable state has now been published, and virtually every bit of that has been recorded.
  • The remainder, consisting of a single counterpoint exercise and two fragments, is in the works.

Details may be seen here, here, and here. I rest my case.

Favorable cards from Clarke's tarot deck
Favorable cards from Clarke’s tarot deck (Ferd. Piatnik e Figli [Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne], Vienna, n.d.),
which she was given as a gift on 19 September 1928 and used to read Ravel’s fortune a month later—one of several experiences that ultimately led her to put away the cards for good, “as there were things I was simply not meant to know.”

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Sheet Music Plus, one of the most comprehensive and reliable music-sellers on Earth, has just announced simultaneous sales on “New and Notable Music by Women” and on Oxford University Press titles, which together will give you a 20% discount on virtually everything in Rebecca Clarke’s retail backlist, so maybe it’s time for you to replace that tattered copy of the Trio you’ve been taping back together for the past four years (and save $16.40!), or take a flyer on Clarke’s glorious string-quartet movements (and save $9.20!), or invest in OUP’s big song-collection for the simple pleasure of studying “Tiger, Tiger” and “Binnorie” and seeing what real terror looks like (while saving $8.60!).

And even if you already own one of the Urtext editions of Clarke’s Passacaglia on an Old English Tune, you might want to throw in Schirmer’s reprint of their original 1943 publication, which preserves Clarke’s detailed markup of the parts. The viola and cello versions are now sold separately, but they’re a steal at $6.39 and $7.99, respectively.

The sales run through July 7. New titles, special orders, and on-demand items are not included. If you have any questions, our friend Shannon and all the other nice folks at Sheet Music Plus’s crackerjack Customer Service Department are soldiering on heroically from home, and you can reach them as usual at 1-800-743-3868, Monday through Friday, between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm Central Time.