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Comment by Oliver F. Koelling on November 27, 2012 at 6:06am

...I've found some interesting links to several composer score collection which might found your interest if you are so lucky to live closely by to one of these universities in the US...

Dave Grusin Collection

Billy Byers Collection

Nelson Riddle Collection

Alexander Courage Collection

enjoy !!!

All my best to all of you

Oliver

Comment by Oliver F. Koelling on December 28, 2011 at 3:22pm

Hello to all of my group members...I've been long time absent from this forum for time reasons.....I wish all of you a nice happy sylvester and a lucky new 2012...I hope that we will share soonly some scores..I have a lot scores to share....my very best to all - Oliver :-)

Comment by Oliver F. Koelling on July 2, 2011 at 11:00am

Hi every body out there and dear group members..today I'd like to post some interesting links about scores..

 

http://themusicianslibrary.blogspot.com/

 

http://www.greatscores.com/es/p/sheet/style/Film-%26-TV

 

http://wherestheorchestra.com/ -- pdf scores avaliable & ready to download !!!

Comment by Ansgar Kreutz on June 28, 2011 at 3:52am

I think there a two different things: to buy or rent a score or material to make a concert or a recording or to buy or to borrow sheet music in a library to read them to play the music to learn about effects, instrumentation and so on. I think for us all are copyrights important and so I´m member of GEMA in Germany. Composers earn money not at first about sheet music but about performances of their works. I sell my sheet music mostly only for the costs of printing, or I give only one copy for a high price with a copyright (e.g. for a little choir piece). What do you think?

 

Comment by Nacho Taulet on June 28, 2011 at 2:58am

Hi, reading your comments I'm wondering about who wins when a music score is used. Publishers own their own copyright. Music Societies, groups and musicians pay for each concert, cd or performance. People pay a canon of copyright for hearing a cd, go to a concert or see a play. But, what about composers?

I am a member of the Society of Authors of Spain (SGAE) and -considering that I have very few registered works-, I have not received any percentage of my work since 2008.

So, when people talks about share or trade scores, I prefer to offer my scores to the bands that ask for them before someone wants to publish them. First, because when I'm asked for they will play them, better, and secondly, to avoid an intermediary (publishers).

For others scores, the possibility of being accessible to everyone is a little rough, but if this trading or sharing of scores is between professionals or orchestras, I think it could be more interesting because we would be ensuring that works are disseminated more easily, keeping safe the composers copyrights.

Anyway, I've got lot of complete orchestra, big band, small ensembles, brass ensembles scores . If anyone is looking for one, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Comment by Oliver F. Koelling on August 8, 2010 at 1:52pm

..Peter Zwetkoff... the music from Peter is not available so far I know.. Peter is a giant !

Comment by Ansgar Kreutz on June 24, 2010 at 3:44pm

Hi all, i have collectet many thousends of scores, because I conduct since twenty years mostly choirs but somtimes orchestras and smaller ensembles, I want to learn allways from the study from the music of other composers, I´m very interested in the orchestral technics of modern composers so self I have scores from Medek, Stockhausen, Henze, Lonquich, Zimmermann and others

Comment by Simon Godden on June 24, 2010 at 2:10pm

It's the old argument, legal issue versus moral issue. However, a legal line has to be drawn somewhere. Personally, my moral issue is intellectual theft from living composers, composers that find it hard to scrape a living together in all due probability. I would imagine the best way to continue with this group is to download and compare our own scores with each other, and make certain observations about other people's scores and advise them to look it up in the library or maybe they already own a legal copy of it. Throwing film scores around that have been written by living composers certainly isn't the answer.

Comment by Fredrick zinos on June 22, 2010 at 11:42am

Oliver. Probably you are right with respect to sharing a score with a friend, but if you put a score on line for the general public to view and to copy that is owned by a publishing house they may consider that you have violated their right to be the exclusive ageny that can copy and distribute the work i,e, the "Copy Right."

Comment by Oliver F. Koelling on June 22, 2010 at 11:32am

Hi,

Fredrick .. hi randall999. :-)..

well I'm welcome you here in my group of score collectors.
Well I'm writing now round about 35 years scores and collect scores for almost 25 years. Shure I understand your considerations about rights and publishing rights.
But here in Mexico or also in Germany we have the right to share our own scores generally and collected scores world wide privatly under collectors conditions. No problem with that. What kind of scores your are interested in ? I collect mostly filmscors or scores from arrangers...let me know... We may also sharing fine links to score adresses.

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