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...and will be for another 10 years minimum.

The parts are strictly rental only nowadays, making it even harder.

If what you are downloading is public domain in the country in which you are downloading the file, you are free to print it, sell it, copy it, etc.

This is FANTASTIC news! They have a tremendous music library and I'm so thrilled we now have access. Thanks very much for making this happen!

You, or anyone else for that matter, are certainly welcome to spend days and months producing typeset parts to a piece which is in the canon of modern orchestras and has a well-established engraving which is used everywhere. The problems with doing this all again is when you aren't producing a criti...

Vocal score: 2028 (Canada); 2073 (US); 2048 (EU)
Full score, revised: 2023 (Canada); 2068 (US); 2043 (EU)

The rev. ed. full score might even be copyright longer unless the translation by Vida Harford (1907-1992) is redacted.

I don't mean the manuscript parts that are available here, on IMSLP, but rather the "traditional" set of parts which are most commonly used (most come via rental) from the Foley publication, now Boosey & Hawkes. It seems a bit like recreating the wheel unless you're trying to correct u...

Just out of curiosity, why are you going to such efforts to typeset parts to a piece which has perfectly serviceable parts already?

The scans are by U of Mich, and I can't see a reason why this would be copyright anywhere in the world at this point.

What I have done in the past (and what I think we were recommending at one point) was to attach the source files to the PDF that was generated by them. You can look at this as an example: http://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No. ... ndr%C3%A9)

I have resisted posting here after reading the multiple posts of people shocked, outraged, and dumbfounded by the recent change in policy to institute a voluntary paid membership and 15-second pause before accessing scores. I have decided, since there have been numerous posts by people stating what ...

That is by design. The digit remains but accessibility is as if that reads as a "V".

This will be adjusted soon.

Happy New Year to all, and in this new year brings some new composers who are now public domain in Canada and other life-plus-50 countries. Of these composers is Edgar Varèse , now represented on IMSLP for the first time with the majority of his published works. For those not familiar, Varèse was a ...

If you can, provide all the identifying details about the edition and the things Sallen mentioned so we can do a bit of research.