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Hi emeraldimp, I think you (philosophically) rather miss the point. The score in question had a clearly articulated personal copyright notice with the words "all rights reserved" attached on the first page of music. Now in practice I am not so fussy to enforce all of the rights that could ...

Hi guys. Here's something for you to consider. :) I found one of my full scores had been uploaded here and copyrighted under CC by (3.0) , which was the contributor's best guess at interpreting the copyright terms I'd put on the file over at the other website . The piece (Fauré Requiem) is a retypes...

Actually the organisation of the NBE was planned out well in advance, and bears similarity to the explicit groupings in the Malherbe/Weingartner set. As a result it was always intended that the gradual issuing of volumes would occupy the period from 1967 to 2003 (and in practice, the three or so yea...

Indeed, gilbertdh is editor of NBE volume 6, the Prix de Rome works (several fugues that were the "qualifying pieces" to enter the contest, then the three extant cantatas La mort d'Orphée, Herminie, and Cléopâtre, along with the fragments of the winning cantata Sardanapale). I'm on holiday...

Yep. The main CPDL server is hosted at the Centre for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University, and a quick bit of "dig and ping" will verify that the CPDL server is completely off-line, whereas the CCARH's own web server is as normal. The CPDL forums are...

The Malherbe / Weingartner edition of Berlioz was never regarded as definitive when it lacked the scores of Benvenuto Cellini and Les Troyens! One particular Malherbe hobby-horse was the inimical grouping of French Horns with the woodwind choir between the clarinets and bassoons, not to mention the ...

BTW, a redirect page can include category tags, so Il quattro stagioni/The Four Seasons may each be made to appear in the list for Vivaldi. This principle can work for any work (and there are a large number) that are known by a miscellany of titles.

Regards, PML

On the topic of CPDL, the cross-linking project is not dead, it's just resting... Seriously, several of the advantages IMSLP has over CPDL are that it was built as a Wiki from the ground up, whereas CPDL had a back-catalogue of over 8000 items that had to be transitioned from an earlier server syste...

The obvious questions to be answered here - hopefully by an actual music librarian, which I am not - is to what degree the existing library classification schemes already benefit the cataloguing of music specifically, and to what degree would they need to be supplemented or qualified to suit the sor...

About automatic linking... it would actually be rather trivial to do on IMSLP's side. I can reverse the name order differences easily with a parser hook... I've already hacked the software apart anyway (the composer category link is actually generated from the page name). But, the reason I haven't ...

Hi, I see what you mean, when looking at the table of contents for a particular page there are several display options (including showing the score page alongside a page from the critical commentary). Make sure you click on the PDF icon on the right of the link giving the page numbers (not all page ...

Perhaps Arcticwind, your web browser is the problem? I'm using Firefox 2 on a Mac and have had no problem aside for the usual one that there are two servers handling the scores: dme.mozarteum.at has the critical reports PDFs ( Kritischer Bericht ) while the PDFs of the musical works are auto-generat...

Wouldn't the combination of VC, CB, and harpsichord be the basso continuo of the baroque and early classical period? The classical approach evolved from the Baroque, so its the same idea, but by the time of Haydn and Mozart the keyboard used in various orchestras might have been an early fortepiano...

Violoncello e Bassi , or just Bassi by itself, usually implies the inclusion of all of the instruments in the ensemble that have not been given obbligato parts, but also, generally speaking, implies the exclusion of instruments that would play in a higher octave species than the violoncello (or cem...

Wow... nice! I might contact him soon when I get the time Let me just emphasise or reiterate that you request him respectfully, given that his Sibelius scores are such a useful resource to a worldwide public interested in the works of Berlioz, and if you can satisfy him that he would retain copyrig...