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Author: m1964
Date: 2018-12-02 09:21
Our orchestra is going to perform symphony #1 by Gounod.
The only available score from IMSlP is poorly scanned.
According to the conductor, the scores are only available from ISMLP because the symphony was never published.
Does anyone knows another sourse of free downloads of classical orchestral music I could check?
Thanks
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-12-02 12:45
m1964 wrote:
> Our orchestra is going to perform symphony #1 by Gounod.
> The only available score from IMSlP is poorly scanned.
> According to the conductor, the scores are only available from
> ISMLP because the symphony was never published.
>
I'm confused. The score and parts at IMSLP for Gounod's Symphony #1 are unusually clean scans of a Kalmus reprint of the first edition (published in 1855). Is there something else wrong with them?
The score and parts are probably available from Kalmus, but if you want to print the whole thing from the IMSLP materials, there's nothing wrong with the scans that I'm seeing there. They're better than most.
Karl
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Author: m1964
Date: 2018-12-02 19:53
kdk wrote:
> m1964 wrote:
>
> > Our orchestra is going to perform symphony #1 by Gounod.
> > The only available score from IMSlP is poorly scanned.
> > According to the conductor, the scores are only available
> from
> > ISMLP because the symphony was never published.
> >
>
> I'm confused. The score and parts at IMSLP for Gounod's
> Symphony #1 are unusually clean scans of a Kalmus reprint of
> the first edition (published in 1855). Is there something else
> wrong with them?
>
> The score and parts are probably available from Kalmus, but if
> you want to print the whole thing from the IMSLP materials,
> there's nothing wrong with the scans that I'm seeing there.
> They're better than most.
>
> Karl
The parts are hand-written, the background is off white which makes it somewhat difficult to read esp. in not well lit areas and with eyesite that is not perfect...
I'd like to know if there is another source similar to IMSLP, that's all.
Thank you
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-12-02 20:25
m1964 wrote:
> The parts are hand-written, the background is off white which
> makes it somewhat difficult to read esp. in not well lit areas
> and with eyesite that is not perfect...
Are you asking about Charles Gounod's Symphony #1 in D Major? If so, then no, they're not hand-written nor off-white nor at all difficult to read. We must be looking at different pieces, but IMSLP's Gounod 1st is crystal clear (https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1_(Gounod%2C_Charles).
At the same time the claim that it was never published is wrong, too. It was published in 1855 in Paris and reprinted by Kalmus (the score and parts at IMSLP).
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> I'd like to know if there is another source similar to IMSLP,
> that's all.
Not that I know of for orchestral music. There are sites that have PD band music, e.g. https://www.bandmusicpdf.org/ and choral music http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/.
Karl
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Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2018-12-02 20:38
There is nothing comparable to imslp but you can always Google, e.g., Gounod Symphony 1 score to see if the music exists elsewhere.
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-12-02 21:39
BTW, it turns out Lucks Music also has a reprint of the original Columbier edition of 1855. Neither Kalmus nor Lucks is a free source, obviously, but the piece is published and available.
Karl
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Author: m1964
Date: 2018-12-03 17:48
kdk wrote:
> BTW, it turns out Lucks Music also has a reprint of the
> original Columbier edition of 1855. Neither Kalmus nor Lucks is
> a free source, obviously, but the piece is published and
> available.
>
> Karl
Thanks a lot - I will check it out.
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Author: donald
Date: 2018-12-05 16:17
Please try to contribute coherent sentences if possible.
Post Edited (2018-12-05 16:18)
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Author: m1964
Date: 2018-12-05 18:48
KDK wrote:
"...Are you asking about Charles Gounod's Symphony #1 in D Major? If so, then no, they're not hand-written nor off-white nor at all difficult to read. We must be looking at different pieces, but IMSLP's Gounod 1st is crystal clear (https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1_(Gounod%2C_Charles).
At the same time the claim that it was never published is wrong, too. It was published in 1855 in Paris and reprinted by Kalmus (the score and parts at IMSLP)..."
Oh, sorry,
Not Gounod, it is the Viola concerto by Forsyth. I changed some printer setting and it helped to remove some of the background but it is still not as good as the music that was printed and then scanned.
Thanks for replying to my post.
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-12-05 19:57
m1964 wrote:
> Oh, sorry,
>
> Not Gounod, it is the Viola concerto by Forsyth. I changed some
> printer setting and it helped to remove some of the background
> but it is still not as good as the music that was printed and
> then scanned.
>
Ah! Horse of a different color!
Actually, those parts don't look so bad on my computer, either, but the scan is a little light. It seems to be a Schott edition, but more useful may be that the scanned parts came from the Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music in Philadelphia (part of the Free Library of Philadelphia). The physical parts can probably be rented from them if you're not in Philadelphia (Fleisher doesn't charge a rental fee for orchestras based in Philadelphia), assuming Fleisher still has them.
If that's of interest to your MD, you can google the Free Library of Philadelphia to find contact information. Getting around that website is a little bit arcane, so if you have trouble finding the Fleisher contact information, email me privately and I'll send it to you.
For anyone not familiar with it, the Fleisher Collection is a monumental resource for orchestral repertoire of all kinds, from standard warhorse repertoire to obscure, never played pieces.
Karl
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Author: concertmaster3
Date: 2018-12-06 01:10
I use a app "Genius Scan" on my phone to scan pdfs so I can read them on my tablet. It does a great job turning off-white paper to a white background to make the contrast better. Uploading the PDF into the app might be a good option. Then you could print the PDF from there.
That doesn't help with the hand written-part though...
Ron Ford
Woodwind Specialist
Performer/Teacher/Arranger
http://www.RonFordMusic.com
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Author: Neil
Date: 2018-12-09 06:08
Another option is to download Finale Notepad and type up your part. I used to do that for anything hand-written or march-sized.
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