Scores, scores, score, but no books.

[Lyle Neff]

That said, we need more. Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration would be nice.

If I can find where my copy of that book is, I'd like to start scanning it for upload. In small sections, that is.

Have you all seen the free online adaptation? It's linked from the Garritan Personal Orchestra site. Go here. (Not quite finished yet; use of voices has not been added yet.)

[Yagan Kiely]

I know that GPO has choir, but I bet it would be a while until they have voices.

[Lyle Neff]

Hello,

Could someone please provide some advice on this question that I asked on Aug. 4? Thanks.

I was going to upload the book "Rimsky-Korsakov" by M. Montagu-Nathan (which is at Internet Archive and Harvard), but was put off by the copyright matters (it's from 1917, but he died in 1958, so there were all these warnings coming up about non-PD in lots of places when I created his "composer" page.)

If it's best not to upload this work, please delete the "composer" page that I created for "Montagu-Nathan, Montagu".

Otherwise, please advise. [...]

[daphnis]

Lyle, upload the book and we'll tag it for release in 2009. I would also suggest creating a composition/work link under Rimsky-Korsakov.

[Stockhausen]

There are tons, and I do mean TONS of books on google. I recall that Harvard started a electronic library and other schools joined up. Then google took over. Most the books are free to download and copyright free. just goto books.google.com and do your search. then in the drop down box, click "full preview." and there you go. free music theory, composition, orchestration, history books. In my own "library" i have about 300 books. On top of that the scans are very good.

This was my first post, and I hope that this will not be thought of as spam. I am just trying to be useful. Hope this helps.

[vinteuil]

http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Other_music_score_websites. Feel free to add any others if you know of them (no dupicates, please...)

[Carolus]

That's very true, but you have to make sure that all Google logos and the embedded metadata are stripped before uploading here. As we've discussed on the scanning thread, Google does some really bizarre things when they scan items so that random pages can cause a printer crash.

[Operalala]

Are there any plans to include libretti, lyrics and translations for vocal works?
Someone above said they created a Category:Libretti, but I couldn't find the page on IMSLP.
Operalala

[Lyle Neff]

Operalala,

I uploaded Tjumenev's Russian translation of Wagner's "Ring", so there are some libretti already.

The problem is that pages for non-composing authors have to be created as "composer" pages; and, like books (with which they are classed on IMSLP), titles have to be created as musical compositions (for now).

As to the Google scans, not all of them are good. Pages might be missing which should be there (without explanation), or only part of page might be scanned with someone's hand in the way or the page blurred because it was moving at the time of scanning.

[Operalala]

There would also need to be way to link the libretti to their corresponding scores.

Operalala

[Lyle Neff]

There would also need to be way to link the libretti to their corresponding scores.

Operalala

If the libretto was written by the composer, the file data could simply be placed on the page for the composition; f it was written by someone else, the data can be copied from the "book" work page of the librettist and pasted into the page for the work -- with an appropriate subheading added in both situations.

[Operalala]

The libretti would need to be *linked* in some way to the composition from which they were taken, otherwise no one will know they're there.

Operalala