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Re: Orchestral Parts Project

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Do we have the Wagner Operas CD sets?
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Not yet. I've always loved Mark Twain's famous remark about Wagner (his music is much better than it sounds), even though I do actually enjoy the operas in a good performance. Those will be some Gurre-Lieder sized sets.
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Worse. The parts will be much, much longer. Should we split by act?
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perlnerd666 wrote:Worse. The parts will be much, much longer. Should we split by act?
PDF bookmarks would be an alternate approach.
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Please don't split by act, but use bookmarks as horndude suggests.
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That's fine...the files will just be rather large...but it's fine.
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What's wrong with large files? I think that's much more preferable than having unnecessary divisions.
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Well Carolus made that point with his splitting of large sets - say, Gurrelieder - into small files, for those with dial-up. It's a bit strange to have split that into 34 files to keep the size down, and then upload 200-page violin parts (Then again, sleeping beauty...)
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Well, those with dial-up are just going to be hating life with ANY form of media. I don't see any reason why instrumental parts to a given work should be divided into multiple files.
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I'll let carolus defend his own points
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Re: Orchestral Parts Project

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Sorry to interrupt, but out of curiosity, how many works will be part of the OM project when it is complete?
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About 600.
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Re: Orchestral Parts Project

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Aaaaaaaand...we're done!
Thanks to Yagan, Carolus, and especially Kcleung for their fabulous work.
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I can't tell you how convenient this has been for my Orchestral Studies classes (not to mention all the orchestras that are probably also grateful). Thanks, guys! :D
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Congrats, everyone, and thanks! My orchestra's director is thrilled!
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