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If someone somewhere has access, the time and the inclination to scan the full score to Bantock's massive setting of Omar Khayyám's Rubaiyat, I would be eternally grateful. Getting access to the orchestral score would be great for study as this is a work on the orchestral-size scale comparable to Mahler 8, etc. I only have access to vocal scores of it. A long shot I know, but I thought I'd throw it out there. WorldCat is showing a possible full score at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, FWIW.

Any of Bantock's other outsized orchestral scores would be great as well.

No too surprisingly, the Buffalo library turned out to be a vocal score. Does anyone know anything about locating a full score for this? All of my various inquiries and searches have been fruitless. There's got to be something out there somewhere, I know that a diagram showing the unique layout for the massive string section is included in Norman Del Mar's Anatomy of the Orchestra, so presumably he had access to a full score in the late 70s/early 80s.

If you want to search libraries internationally, try the Karlsruher Verbundkatalog (KVK): http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html

There are lots of bantock entries in the British Copac catalog ("Britischer VK"), but also a full score of Omar Khayyám at Heidelberg University (Breitkopf 1909).

Is still copyright in Europe (Bantock died 1946), but often publishers in Germany send out study scores of rental material for free (postage and packaging only) if a public performance is possible (an inquiry on your university orchestras stationary for example...).