Orchestral Parts Project

[daphnis]

Do we have the Wagner Operas CD sets?

[Carolus]

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.

[vinteuil]

Worse. The parts will be much, much longer. Should we split by act?

[horndude77]

Worse. The parts will be much, much longer. Should we split by act?

PDF bookmarks would be an alternate approach.

[daphnis]

Please don't split by act, but use bookmarks as horndude suggests.

[vinteuil]

That's fine...the files will just be rather large...but it's fine.
Start working, kcleung!

[daphnis]

What's wrong with large files? I think that's much more preferable than having unnecessary divisions.

[vinteuil]

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...)

[daphnis]

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.

[vinteuil]

I'll let carolus defend his own points

[ras1]

Sorry to interrupt, but out of curiosity, how many works will be part of the OM project when it is complete?

[vinteuil]

About 600.

[vinteuil]

Aaaaaaaand...we're done!
Thanks to Yagan, Carolus, and especially Kcleung for their fabulous work.

[steltz]

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!

[ras1]

Congrats, everyone, and thanks! My orchestra's director is thrilled!