The International Piano Archives has a library of 15,000 piano scores housed at the Univ. of Maryland. The National Flute Association also has a library of more than 15,000 flute scores housed at the Univ. of Arizona. Has IMSLP asked either of these organizations if they might provide scans of music in the public domain to IMSLP (especially works not already available here)?
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two huge archives of published music
Re: two huge archives of published music
The International Clarinet Association's archives are also housed at Maryland. I did ask about scans at one point, but got no answer. Much of what they have is still under copyright, but there are some nice things that are public domain. I have ordered photocopies of some of them, but they usually come very very dark, because of the age of the originals, and (apart from me needing a better scanner) there would be a lot of cleanup.
But this is an untapped mine!!!
But this is an untapped mine!!!
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Re: two huge archives of published music
The PD archives of the Clarinet Association are for sale on an inexpensive CD. Its collection is relatively small. By contrast, the National Flute Association's library is gigantic -- and it includes vast quantities of PD scores. There is an equally large archive of flute scores in France at La Flûte Traversière.
The IPA collection of piano music, I have heard, is unrivaled. The IPA also has 90+ % of every commericial piano recording ever made.
Then, there is the Fleischer Collection at the Philadelphia Free Library. This collection is unique, the largest of its kind. It holds the orchestral parts to innumerable published orchestral scores that are now PD and out of print. It also holds many hand-copied sets of parts for orchestral works in the public domain -- which it lends to orchestras free-of-charge.
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The IPA collection of piano music, I have heard, is unrivaled. The IPA also has 90+ % of every commericial piano recording ever made.
Then, there is the Fleischer Collection at the Philadelphia Free Library. This collection is unique, the largest of its kind. It holds the orchestral parts to innumerable published orchestral scores that are now PD and out of print. It also holds many hand-copied sets of parts for orchestral works in the public domain -- which it lends to orchestras free-of-charge.
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Re: two huge archives of published music
Unless I'm missing something, I don't think the PD part of the International Clarinet Association archive is for sale -- I can't find this anywhere on the Research library website or on the ICA site. You might be confusing it with the CD that is for sale from the Clarinet Institute of Los Angeles, but many of those works are available on IMSLP anyway. In any case, the library is smaller than the others, but it would still be nice to have the PD stuff.
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