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therepetiteur

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Hi there

Can anyone help me out with a scan of the following?

Durufle op13
Hakim Mariales
Rutter Toccata in 7
Britten prelude and fugue on a theme by Vittoria?
 

Krummhorn

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Hi there

Can anyone help me out with a scan of the following?

The "scanning" and redistribution of copyrighted music is illegal. All of the printed works of the composers you mention are still well within copyright protection and will be for many years, possibly into the next century. Open your wallet - pay for those pieces like all honest people do.

Paying a few dollars for a music score is much better than paying thousands of dollars in fines and/or spending years in jail behind bars for not heeding copyright laws.

Also just because something is out of print does not mean it is no longer copyrighted!!

There is, however, a plethora of Public Domain music available at IMSLP.org.
 

Albert

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I agree. Pay for the music. The cost of music is insignificant compared to the enjoyment of learning it and playing it. Those who write/wrote the music deserve to have enough money to pay for groceries, too.
 

sesquialtera

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I agree. Pay for the music. The cost of music is insignificant compared to the enjoyment of learning it and playing it. Those who write/wrote the music deserve to have enough money to pay for groceries, too.

I agree, BUT a lot of sites sell scores (sheet music) - without any informations about the real content, and without the first page scan, so you can't really know what you are buying. (They just show the title page... what an effort !! ) In case of copyrighted music with opus number, it is easy, and it's normal to pay for the music; but when you search for transcriptions or arrangements, it is risky to buy with no garanty about the quality or the serious of the arranger ... trust me, I lost a lot of money saerching for the best transcription of Bach's chacony BWV 1004 ... sometimes, I bought some score I could have made myself ... and I could have made better !! This is the problem with internet : You can't turn the pages. In a real music-shop, you can !
 

Krummhorn

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The Bach BWV 1004 is public domain . . . available on the IMSLP.org site I mentioned earlier: BWV 1004

You might also check with your local university if it has a music department library. Our does and has a plethora of out of print (copyrighted) music available to borrow for several weeks at a time.

Also contact your church organists in your region. Some may have this music and allow you to use it for a little while.
 

bgrandy

New member
Well, I've done it again! I can't find my "Prelude sur l'Introit de l'Epiphanie...AGAIN. I've played it every Epiphany Sunday for years...and of course it's already listed in the church bulletin for tomorrow . Can anyone e-mail me a copy? My copy is the original one that I ripped out of the AGO magazine decades ago.

Bob Grandy / Minister of Music
Trinity United Church
Peterborough, Ontario Canada
 

Krummhorn

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Staff member
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Dear Bob,

An excellent alternate prelude for Epiphany is Wie Schön Leuchtet der Morgenstern by Dietrich Buxtehude.

Possibly you might contact the National AGO Headquarters and see if there is a back issue copy available (?).

Also check with local universities which may have music libraries.
 

DReece1

Civilian
Amazon has world books and they sell for a penny sometimes. The problem is that the postage is £2.99. Look on eBay. But the Rutter piece I bought from an Oxfam shop in a Rutter Organ Album. I got it dirt cheap and found out that John Rutter had signed the Tocatta in 7. As to the works here they will all be copyrighted because Rutter as far as I know is still alive as Christmas gone. Britton died in the 70s. Haikim is very much alive and was a pupil of Messiaen. Druffle also died very recently. Therefore the 70 year rule applies on all of these composers. Now methinks you are either from the copyright theft people to see who breaks the law. To ask for at least piece is unbelievable but to ask for 4 pieces reeks of pure audacity. Buy your music even if you have lost it you might turn up a gem like I did with Rutter. One assumes that the person at Oxfam didn’t know who Rutter was.
 

DReece1

Civilian
other gems I found were Leighton and Matthias Organ albums marked as Used both 1p. What turned up from world books were two ex library books from a London University with the usual library ticket holders and the books. When it said used it should have read NEW! Neither book had ever been taken out at the library.
 
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