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Thank you for your reply, and to David for uploading a scan of this work. I don't think I had ever personally seen a renewal notice on a pre-1923 work before, so combined with the fact that a scan wasn't present when I searched, I was confused about the status of the work. That is all clear now. Man...

I was surprised to not find the Howells Psalm Preludes on IMSLP (on the US server, at least), because they were composed between 1915–1916, and are copyrighted 1921. Oddly, they say "renewed 1949", which doesn't make a lot of sense—unless that's something more specific to Europe than the U...

I'm confused about copyright for this piece--Incantation Pour Un Jour Saint--by Jean Langais. It was published in Switzerland in 1954 by Editions Schola Cantorum, and Langlais only died in 1991, so it would seem to be copyrighted. The confusion is that Masters Music currently publishes it in a repri...