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One question, though: I'd like to browse the Sibley collection manually and upload the interesting items first (of course still using the special Sibley uploading tool). That way I can pick some interesting scores for my own collection as well. Would that be ok, or would it interfere with the work o...

Silly me, didn't realize that the Sibley scores originate from this source.
I'lll try and contribute then (starting with organ scores, since that's my field of interest...)

Have there been any attempts so far at integrating (parts of) this giant collection with IMSLP? https://urresearch.rochester.edu/browseCollectionPersonNames.action?collectionId=25 As far as I can see, everything is at least US PD, and there are no bogus copyright notices. If there's interest in havi...

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Gr%C3%BCber,_Joseph The correct name of this composer is Josef Gruber (without umlaut!) "Joseph" is only found on english scores of his music. And to make matters worse, the composer page prominently featured a portrait of Franz Xaver Gruber, the guy who wrot...

Most movies by Stanley Kubrick have classical music scores, many of them became legendary: 2001, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining.

I recently uploaded a book with simple piano duet pieces by Heinrich Enke:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Melodische_%C3%9C ... einrich%29
Fun music, check it out.

If you've got perfect (absolute) pitch, no problem.

1. Beethoven: one of his late quartets. Impossible to chose one. Most people prefer Op.131, sometimes I'm more inclined to chose the less popular Op.127 (Es-dur). I could easily fill the top 5 with the Missa Solemnis and the Diabelli variations, but let's give other composers a chance too. 2. Bach: ...

It's a weird place to discuss Mendelssohn's merits (would be more suited to the "overrated" topic), but ok. I think it's a problem of personality. Since M. was an early 19th century composer, we tend to regard him, historically, as a romanticist - which he was to a certain extend, but far ...

Depends on where you live. Since Prokofiev died in 1953, his work is still non-PD in countries that have the 70+ rule (like the EU). In countries with the 50+ rule (like Canada), his work is PD.

There IS copyright on Urtext editions, but in the EU it's limited to 25 years. So the IMSLP stance on this isn't arbitraty.

I'd say it's ok to upload it (if you're a EU resident - in other parts of the world these scores can still be non-PD), but don't quote me on that.

Do you guys have a link for that download?
When I google "BSB" and "music" I only get links for the Backstreet Boys...

jm_1234321 wrote:When printing a score from a PDF it is easy to omit that first blank page.

True, but it's always a PITA if you have to reprint a couple of pages (because of printer jam or whatever) and the page numbering in the pd doesn't correspond with that in the score (ood becomes even and vice versa).

NLewis wrote:Schumann was really a bad composer.

More personal taste presented like the Absolute Truth. Care to elaborate?

Maybe it isn't the right place for a rant, but examples like this prove the idiocy of modern copyright laws. A 1925 piece that won't enter PD before 2061... madness. If you're the son of a businessman, your profit from your dad's work ends the moment he stops working or dies. If you're the son of a ...