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I confess I'm a little surprised. Not very. Just a little. Hah! Isn't that just perfect? The IMSLP attack just happened to co-incide with some convenient holidays. :P One can understand a company or an association contacting someone at IMSLP to ask the removal of a work that genuinely is in copyrig...

Their lawsuit is frivolous, but please don't turn this in to an ad hominem attack against music publishers and composers who want their protections under current law. Surely it's clear who I was referring to? I would never launch an attack against living composers, or the people who promote their w...

This is pathetic. It's quite obvious why they're doing it, too:- Rachmaninov enters the PD in the EU on January 1, 2014, and they're trying to squeeze every last drop of money out of people for his work before their legal entitlement to do so is taken away. So, because of one composer who may or may...

Yikes!! The composer of the music for that film (Joe Hisaishi) is still alive, and was 60 last December, so he's unlikely to be Public Domain for about a century!! There's a Piano Score available on Otaku.com , as it happens - though, as to whether it's the full thing or a simplified version, it doe...

I'm always a bit grey about this sort of thing - would it not be possible to simply excise the editorial realisation from the score and to leave it with the original figured bass?

They're quite low quality anyway, in fact. Would be quite hard to get it up to the original size (which wouldn't have been particularly large anyway). I'll see what I can do viz. enlarging the images though. It's still a useful resource to have - and the (very important) Rules for Accompaniment aren...

I found one guy on the Scribd website who has scanned and uploaded what seems to be the entirety of the original (i.e. unrevised) Oiseau-Lyre Complete Couperin set. I'm not sure how else to link them, so I'll place links to the whole lot here: I Oeuvres Didactiques II Pieces de Clavecin: Premier , S...

Good news! I happened to click on the Link in the post I made a few months ago, and the d'Anglebert images are up! Boccaccio, did you say you could download images without the Water-mark? If so, it'd make it much easier to make the d'Anglebert a bit more readable.

Actually, Boccaccio, that link you gave is interesting, in that only the first two images load - the rest are black, just like the d'Anglebert! That's very odd! I'm definitely emailing them now! xD

Actually, I noticed that there's a link at the bottom of the catalogue page for the d'Anglebert with an e-mail address asking that errors and such be pointed out. The address is avitolo@comune.bologna.it. Think it'd be worth emailing 'em?

Oh excellent! How do you download the older files? Can I do it for the d'Anglebert stuff as well? I mean, judging from the fact that the thumbnails are there, it has to have been up there at some stage...

Hmmm, I would do, but I'm not having much luck. I speak no Italian at all (I've been trying to make my through on the basis of my French xD), and I think they'd probably prefer an e-mail in Italian... possibly?

Hmmm... I don't see why they'd have a problem with people putting their scans up on IMSLP - surely the point of 'digital collections' is to share great works of out-of-copyright literature with the world. I was rather disappointed that they've blocked people from that d'Anglebert score, it's a beaut...

I've been trying to pick my way through an Italian library's digital collections recently (with some difficulty - I don't speak Italian!!), and have come across a bit of a problem. The site has some wonderful stuff on it, some of which has been put up on IMSLP already. They've a particular batch of ...

Ah, I see, yes. Thanks for clarifying that for me. Terribly unfair, of course, if Warner\Chappell do indeed own the former Keith Prowse rights in the US, to let it go out of print. I know for a fact that this is a highly sought-after work, and surely it is their duty to keep fine works like this in ...