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Wow, in that case then it is real low.

And the drinks are all on you, imslp?

Hi, I did find this entry in Sheet Music Plus. Is this what you're looking for:

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp ... em-_-Title

His works would only be PD in Canada after 2014, so you would have to wait for a while.

Ah, I meant for musical instruments only. But you're right in saying that alto singers used to sing in the alto clef (cf. old editions of scores with vocal forces) before the modern convention of the treble clef. I always get a headache trying to read four different clefs at the same time (soprano, ...

Let me try to understand this. In the example I gave, the interval of the low D in Mozart's Seraglio is a minor 14th (14ma) between middle C and the low D. I assume the low B-flat has an interval of more than that (major 16th between middle C and the low B-flat)?

No offense intended, but I always thought that violas are special because they use the alto clef exclusively.

Hmm, regarding the low bass notes sung, apart from the Magic Flute, I seem to remember that in the Abduction from the Seraglio (by Mozart again), the bass can sing to a low D. Now that is really low.

Has this something to do with improved training over the centuries? I don't recall many Baroque or Classical operas requiring sopranos to sing high Cs all the time. I do know that one of the greatest sopranos, Dame Joan Sutherland was able to reach those high notes effortlessly. Your thoughts on La ...

What about double bass players?

That's why I would prefer to photocopy a score before scanning it. Photocopying does two things. First, it optically reduces the paper size of large sized score (bigger than 12 X 9 inches) to A4 size which can fit into a normal scanner. In the opposite way, it also enlarges miniature sized scores to...

Yagan, for a professional soprano, which high note is considered the limit? I suppose there is no hard and fast rule and this depends on the individual skill of the singer. Is it very difficult to sing the very high Fs in the Queen of the Night's two arias in Mozart's the Magic Flute?

Hmm, I didn't know that. For the cadenza part of Think of Me, is it possible that the last note, the highest note, is prerecorded, if not the whole cadenza?

Carolus, if that's the case, then the copyright of the Bopp edition would expire after 1989 based on the EU copyright directive?

Now listening to the first movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony, one of the most famous movements in classical music.