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Hi,

I was asking myself why theoretical writings of composers cannot be found in IMSLP. In the P2P network, we can find scans of various theory books. For example, Koechlin's "Traité de l'harmonie" (1923-1926) , several music theory works by Arnold Shoenberg ("Theory of Harmony", "Structural Functions of Harmony"...etc), Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, ...etc... I'm not an expert on copyright question but i think some of them are in public domain in Canada.

So here is my question, is it IMSLP policy to provide only scores, or can we hope to find some theory books too ?

Excuse my french i speak english like a spanish cow...

Yes, we do have quite a lot of theory books and other writings on music. On this page: http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:CategoryWalker/Writings/ if you scroll through the 'Work Types' section, the subcategories of 'Writings' are listed, and if you click on the 'show pages' links you will be taken to a category listing of all the applicable pages. You can also get there by typing 'theory' into the search box on the main page.

Thanks !

http://imslp.org/wiki/Music_Theory
It's an IMSLP theory project full of basic music theory.