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Hello, I'm having trouble finding the song "Ouvre ton coeur", by Bizet. Is it going to be uploaded or can anyone tell me where can I find the score (voice and piano), for free?

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Thank you very much!

Please no file exchange on these forums, thank you.

sorry, I didn't know!

I'd also like to request a scan of this song.

I have a Hal Leonard French song anthology which contains this song, but I'm reluctant to scan it myself. The new Hal Leonard anthologies include commentaries and translations which are probably under copyright. It's also a new typeset of the song, and I don't know if that has an effect on PD status.

I can give a hint to tracking this song down, though. In the commentary it says...

Composed 1859/60. Published by Choudens, volume 2. This song began life as part of a dramatic piece Bizet composed as a student in Rome, the ode-symphony Vasco de Gama (1859/60). The work, a composite of opera, oratorio and symphony, is hardly known today. "Ouvre ton coeur" was published separately and posthumously.

It looks like volume one of the Choudens score has already been scanned and uploaded as separate songs. All someone has to do is find volume two. I've already checked at the UC Berkeley library, with no luck.

haydenmuhl wrote:It looks like volume one of the Choudens score has already been scanned and uploaded as separate songs. All someone has to do is find volume two. I've already checked at the UC Berkeley library, with no luck.

Are these the book in question?

http://www.worldcat.org/title/seize-mel ... ef_results
http://www.worldcat.org/title/seize-mel ... ef_results
http://www.worldcat.org/title/seize-mel ... ef_results
http://www.worldcat.org/title/seize-mel ... ef_results
http://www.worldcat.org/title/melodies- ... ef_results

And a modern reprint: http://www.worldcat.org/title/sixteen-s ... ef_results

That looks like the one. It's got the song the OP requested, and it's marked as songs published posthumously.

I found a PD copy of "Ouvre ton coeur" at the library, but they weren't able to lend any books at the time due to computer problems. It's at the top of my list next time I'm able to make it to the library.

Uploaded.