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I do apologise, it was entirely my mistake. I would be interested in hearing from Paulsson, so if anyone knows how to contact him, or if he could contact me, I would be very pleased. He could help me a great deal with my upcoming Fille du Regiment project. In return I could help with the anomalies i...

Oops.

Many apologies to both Paulsson and Notenschreiber.

I am doing a major piece of work on Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment. There are two full scores on the site at present, an old Kalmus version and an excellent newly engraved version by Karl Paulsson, also I believe known as Notenschreiber. I notice that there are a number of anomalies in the Paulsso...

Understood. I do a lot of arrangements, and was tentatively asked about this piece. I have started to re-engrave the piano duo version with a view to orchestrating it from there. This was always my intention. I got about half way through before I had to break off to complete other work. I don't have...

Thank you. The page you link to is full of information that I have been looking for since I started doing arrangements. Very useful.

I note that the original piano versions of Rhapsody in Blue are out of copyright, but the orchestration by Ferde Grofé in still in copyright in the EU etc.

Would new arrangements for orchestra, NOT based on Grofe's score, be legal. I assume that they would, and be the copyright of the new arranger.

Sorry if this has been covered before, but I can't find a specific reference.

If a publisher re-publishes as score on which the copyright has expired, but changes or adds bar numbers to it, does this constitute enough to create copyright on the new edition?

I'm assuming it does, but...