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The full score for Shostakovich Symphony no. 13 was recently (rightly) rejected because, although Shostakovich is now PD in Taiwan, the vocal text is still protected. If the vocal text were redacted, could such a score be submitted? Although this would then be an incomplete work, it may still be of interest. In searches of this forum, I came across endorsement of such a practice for a translation, where the the original vocal text was retained, but have not seen my question answered. I do not currently plan to submit such a score but figured others may want to know the answer. Thank you!

Yes if the text were redacted, we can accept the score as a Instrumental based score then. While incomplete, otherwise we would have to wait jntil the 2060s to have this work in full on here. For Symphony No.14, we would need a new translation written in order to use that as is.