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Carolus: I was referring specifically to scores found on websites, not scanned ones. The Abel scores have very few marks other than music (not even plate numbers). Is there a way to tell if these are PD?

Hi, Violist32! I'm a fellow newcomer (though slightly less new, by the sound of it). I introduced a thread on this topic a few weeks ago. I agree that parts are a great idea, since I love to print out the music and try to play it. Unfortunately, many of the scores are from "pocket scores" ...

I have a related idea. I think I'm not the only one who has music with incomplete or missing publisher information, and I am hesitant to upload these scores in case they aren't PD. Could there be an area where the less experienced (and less knowledgeable) uploaders can put music to be checked by oth...

Thanks for your help!

Are non-admins allowed to delete files? There are two scores that need to be deleted. 1. Dvorak Symphony No.8 Complete Score (this is a duplicate - the same score is now split into files by movement) 2. Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello, the file at the bottom of the page. This contains the Elibr...

OK - thanks for your help, everyone.

Oh wait...it says 1960 and something in Russian at the bottom of the cover page...guess I won't do it.

I guess I'll go ahead and upload it. If it turns out not to be (which I doubt), someone will just delete it.

I'm about to upload the Viotti Violin Concerto No.23 from notes.tarakanov.net to IMSLP, but I can't tell for sure if it's public domain. I assume it is in Russia, since it's on the site...does that necessarily mean it's okay for IMSLP?

Another problem is that for some of the scores, it's hard to tell if they're in the public domain. Some from the wishlist are the Wieniawski Scherzo-Tarantelle under notes.tarakanov.net/violin.htm, which needs the Elibron logo removed, or Schubert Symphony No.5 Score at the bottom of the Symphony Or...

Unfortunately, many of the scores are in a format of one TIFF file per page, which then need to be converted to PDF and combined. This is pretty annoying to do.

Also, some scores have logos from places like Elibron.com, which need to be removed.

There are hundreds of scores here. Many of them are foreign, but most are high quality and all are free to download. I don't know which scores follow public domain regulations for which countries, but many of the scores are clearly public domain and are missing from IMSLP. If IMSLP could acquire the...

How much of Kreisler's music is PD. I can't find any information on publishing dates. I notice none of it is on IMSLP, is that why?

Where does everyone get all of this PD music? The only place I can find it is on this site and Mutopia/SheetMusicFox.

Also, if anyone finds a PD copy of Brahms's Piano Quartet No.3 in C Minor (preferably with parts), I would be eternally grateful if you could put it on IMSLP.

There are a lot of symphonic full scores on IMSLP, but a shortage of individual parts. I realize that parts take up a lot of time and space, but for those of us who want to play the music, they are much more useful. Anyway, if you have the parts to those symphonies, maybe scanning them in might be p...