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For Mozart of course it's not a relic -- the trumpet COULDN'T play outside the fundamentals. So being in C, it'll relate to C minor just fine (all C means is that it's notated at concert pitch, so a C will sound C....just fine when the only notes it can play are C and G outside of one E -- and since...

I tried to wright a post last night but the forum derped... But yeah, I agree with the above. I was saying perhaps death + 20 /or/ the death of the last surviving children or (current) spouse, whichever is first. Certainly a creator shouldn't be penalized in their gains just because they happened to...

I don't regard any of the responses here as "flaming." Does the OP? Maybe not flaming, ok. But is "Perhaps you might think about spending some money and buying it, rather than deceiving yourself that downloading it is morally defensible." really a necessary response? Especially ...

I'm not talking about the law. I'm asking why such an attitude toward wanting a piece that old, especially when it's not that different in age from ones that ARE ok. The OP I'm sure had absolutely no idea about the status of the piece, and to flame in such a way is really unfair.

I dunno, why it it so horrible to want to DL Gershwin's 1925 work for free but perfectly fine to DL a public domain everywhere work written and published in 1920?

I'd love to play clarinet in some future work if this works out...

Whoops, I made a mistake -- it's actually 2024.

The site has no IP blocking, if it's blocked for you it's blocked for everyone. In this case as Prokofiev died less than 70 years ago and the piece was published after 1923, it's not PD in both Europe and the US so it stays blocked (I'm guessing it'll be put on the European server in 2014 at which p...

Um... "No. 6" (actually written before No. 1) was orchestrated/reconstructed by someone else (Wikipedia says Federico Mompellio and Francesco Fiore, whoever those are), from sketches and the solo violin part. IIRC, this was sometime in the 20th century, if not as late as the 1970s. So yeah.

I read somewhere that at 256kbps MP3 is just as good as AIFF or WAV, and in my experience that seems to be true. Even Matesic's MP3 at 128kbps sounds very good to me. It's not 'just as good', though a large percentage of people can't hear the difference with what they use to listen to music. Howeve...

Well listening to those excerpts, especially the first one, it seems he was leaning toward those "new techniques", and perhaps that's what he hated so much.

Well he certainly DID compose, just not very much. Plus he orchestrated, rearranged, and/or revised a few of his pieces. Andante Festivo, for instance, wasn't orchestrated until like 1939. He wrote a very catchy patriotic song in 1930. Etc. etc.

Is this what the Dover edition used? Yeeesh. No wonder people poop on them at times.

I still don't get why people seem to think Matthews was the only one to write a Pluto movement.

Kinda. Let's say you have a horn with a pitch crooked in F. You switch it out for one crooked in D -- to get the D you have to play the open pitch that you previously played to get the F. Think about how much easier it is when both of these notes read C -- it's the exact same reason clarinets, saxop...