Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-04-27 17:03
The performance advice in the Hadcock book may add value to it, but in general the old excerpt books have become mostly outdated by the availability of whole parts online. Even the OMCDRL series has been made obsolete.
When the International books were published, there was no way for most student players to get their hands on the actual parts. It was expensive to buy each one. If your teacher played in an orchestra with a large library of performing parts and he or she was willing to make copies for students, you might be able to get parts that way, but the oldest books came out even before the days of Xerox photocopies. The books weren't always reliable - McGinnis's books are full of errors, as are Bonade's book, Cailliet's book of French excerpts and probably the later International books that came after McGinnis had their share. Besides, being excerpts, the books couldn't possibly have included every passage that might show up in an audition.
IMSLP has most of the Public Domain parts that an orchestra player would need to play. Whether you're interested in this to prepare for auditions, or you're just interested in playing the major solo passages for your own amusement, you're better off with the full parts. You won't find many "modern" works - 1940s on - at IMSLP, but they aren't in the excerpt books or OMCDRL, either, because they're still protected by copyright. The old copies of the excerpt books do have Shostakovich and Prokofiev excerpts in them that have, I think, been deleted from newer editions because the Russian participation in international copyright agreements changed in the 1970s, so you'd have to find an antique copy of any of the books to get those.
By the way, if you're interested in learning the orchestral parts in a serious way, even the original parts often have errors. It's good to sit down with recordings and listen to see if you hear discrepancies between the performance and the written part.
Karl
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