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Hi guys. I've been tried to view Vaughan Williams' piece, but I cannot access for them. where do i supposed to get it?

Only option right now is a library or to purchase a copy. It's blocked because it's under copyright in the US and the EU.

Good luck trying to find a score to buy. I had to get my study score via eBay, back when there seemed to be many such items for sale. Oxford University Press in the UK only lists scores and parts for rental. The situation is even worse for RVW's "Job", a fabulously scored piece that used to have a study score available. Been looking for a copy of that for years.

--Sixtus

Rant: OUP is miserably lax in keeping useful stuff in print, far worse than other university presses that publish music (e.g. the full score of Brown's edition of Haydn's Creation, which I'd nominate for IMSLP posting as soon as it becomes legal to do so).

Here is a score of Job for sale.

Oxford will rerelease a study score of Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica on 30 August 2012 and it will be available on amazon.com.

Here is a link to the info: http://www.amazon.com/Sinfonia-Antartic ... 0193385880

- DLW

As of this very moment, I see a full score listed for $120 on the Peters site: (Peters is now the distributor for Oxford). The ISBN is 9780193385870
The study score lists for $29.95. The ISBN is 9780193385887
The listing would seem to contradict the earlier link about availability on Aug. 30, but that may have changed.

The spelling "Antartica" is apparently Italian, which would make IMSLP's spelling of the work's title, with the extra "c", an error.

I'm sure previous printings of the score are available somewhere but the study score that was just released and I mentioned in my posting is a new printing/edition.