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Re: Concert band excerpt

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-09-17 02:23

I've never heard of one, but I've never seriously searched. One difference between orchestral lit and band music is that, except for very early band pieces, many of them orchestra transcriptions, there's relatively much less band music that's out of copyright and in the public domain. So much band music has been composed since the 1950s, when the band movement in American schools became a major stimulus, that much (certainly not all) of the major modern band repertoire is still protected and can't be included in an excerpt collection. The ones that are available for orchestra contain a lot of 18th, 19th and early 20th century music that is no longer protected.

There is a website, http://www.bandmusicpdf.org/ (Band Music PDF Library, that has a lot of very old public domain band music in complete form - scores and parts. Most of it is not well known or often (if ever) played any more, but I did download a complete set of the Holst Suite #1 in Eb a couple of weeks ago.

Karl

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