Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2010/09
From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pros and Cons of Free Sheet Music
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:50:06 -0400
Joe raises some interesting and important points for which I don't pretend to have answers. Regarding his question about whether my friend did the extraction of parts and if so what happened to them, I have no idea. They were there for the taking if he wanted to do the work. I would have done it but I would have charged him for my time.
As for the extent to which my site is a community place or clearing house, again, my university doesn't have software installed to monitor visitors and downloads so I don't know how many people take a look at things every day and how many download my files. For a short period of time, perhaps one year, my university subscribed to a monitoring service. During that time, maybe 10 years ago, my page had around a hundred visitors every day, well in excess of the level of visitation enjoyed by any of the several dozen pages I managed in my own profession as a professor of chemistry.
I'm still at the level of the amused observer of technology. I don't know where any of this is going. From time to time I'm pleased to learn about performances of pieces which almost certainly came originally from my page, but even there I can't be certain.
I discovered scores of the three concertos by Rimsky Korsakov for wind instruments and band -- clarinet, oboe and trombone -- at the library of UCSD 10-15 years ago, originally obtained from some publisher in Russia. I was delighted to have made the discovery and since I couldn't at that time find the score and/or parts anywhere else I sequenced the three and put in notes, articulation and dynamics. I uploaded them to my page to make them available to everyone with a connection to the internet. I sight read the clarinet concerto with the Huntington Beach Concert Band shortly thereafter and nothing came of it. Our premier performance of the trombone concerto was in the Huntington Beach Marina High School Gymnasium a while after that. Most unfortunately, the oboe concerto has not yet been played by our band, but go to Google and search on
Rimsky Korsakov Variations and see at least three performances uploaded there of the variations on a theme by Glinka, two by musicbox8 and one by fourounnais.
Then look for Rimsky Korsakov Clarinet and find at least 3 performances of that.
Finally look for Rimsky Korsakov Trombone and find several performances of that concerto, the show stopper of the three, in my opinion.
Note that all of these performances are by school and amateur groups. Were the scores downloaded from my page? Beats me, but I had never heard of the three concertos until I found them at UCSD.
In any case, I'm always delighted to see young people performing some of these little known works and it's nice to fantasize that I had something to do with their musical education.
Oliver
>
> (This is where I have some questions for Oliver Seely -- for example,
> when your friend prepared parts from your scores, what happened to them?
> Did he send you copies? If so, did you make them available on your
> website? Note that if you're willing to give up some degree of
> "ownership" of the scores you prepare, there's an opportunity to be had
> in running a kind of "clearing house", sharing the workload of preparing
> scores and parts with other interested parties and providing quality
> review for what ends up on your site. To what extent have you tried to
> make your site a genuine community place?)
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