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To give access to everyone to download, print and distribute scores and others for free. Here you can find modern editions and transcriptions for recorders. All original scores are in public domain, without author's rights. My engravings are not copies of commercials modern editions. If I do arrangements of free modern editions, then I will ask the permission to the author and I will write his copyright on the document. All my documents are under Free Art License. If you think you have author's rights on those documents, please contact the webmaster.

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“Bach in Bombay is about original Indian and Bengale Music mainly for Piano/Harpsichord and Pipe Organ from the 18th century up to present times. Transcription of forgotten music from archives, Performances, Workshops to make it known to the Music lover.“

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"This site presents many instruments I use to play medieval musics. This site is in French, but don't be afraid of that! The iconography is very important! You'll find in this site many informations about instruments in medieval music, but also about their representations in Iconography, their music , .... and also many midi files and many links . " Visit website for more information.

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“A disclaimer note: This document raises some questions, but does not purport to answer them. This is not a musicological article, it is an essay based on its writer's historical sense and his sense of musical and visual aesthetics. It does not provide bibliography to the degree customary in mucicology, unless it is called for by some specific and IMPORTANT issue, and a number of details and nuance found in these pages are based on educated and perspicacious conjecture. This document is intended primarily for lutenists who might wish to acquaint themselves with Ukrainian music and culture in the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Biedermeier Eras, and bandurists, who might wish to gain some understanding of Ukrainian tradition of domestic music-making without commercialism and with some modicum of authenticity. Hopefully it would also hold sufficient interest for lay public as well, and we certainly hope that the MP3 files we provide as musical illustrations would by enjoyed universally. ..“

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“This site was designed... as a primary resource for the serious musician, institution and music lover. Our goal is to provide easy access to performing and study music editions as well as historical, biographical and theoretical monographs (books).

This site lists new book and music titles published world-wide since 1994, and we have also added information on recently published musicological and collected works editions.

We are the oldest established sheet music
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For both new and antiquarian material!

Is there a title you can't find? If there is a title you cannot find, please send us an email and we will locate it and advise you on current availability and price.

A book about our founder, Theodore Front: For The Love of Music“

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“WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.“

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“We produce performing Urtext editions of early music, based on original sources. We are constantly adding new titles to our catalogue, but don't worry if you can't find something - let us know and we'll try to produce a new edition for you! ..“

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“The FTCO provides free public access to a thematic catalogue and database of all the known works of Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), including works of uncertain or mistaken attribution, along with all their early sources (up to approximately 1800), principal modern editions, and associated literature.

It is a work-in-progress, and may remain so for some time to come. We hope that with ongoing contributions and comments from the international musical and scholarly community, we will continue to improve the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usefulness of the database.  …”

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“The Internationa Inventory of Musical Sources - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) is a cross-country non-profit joint venture which aims at comprehensive documentation of the worldwide existing musical sources. …“

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“John Playford published a new book called The English Dancing Master in London in 1651. This volume contained the figures and the tunes for 105 English country dances, the first printing of these group social dances that were to dominate Western ballrooms for the next 150 years. The book appeared at a time of great upheaval in England. Civil disorder and natural disasters forced city residents to seek refuge on remote country estates; expanding trade and emigrations to distant lands carried Englishmen far from their homeland. Both phenomena affected the social life of the upper classes for whom these dances were a satisfying vehicle for leisure time recreation.

Playford’s slim volume sold quickly and he issued a second edition with nine additional dances the next year. Two editions of a third appeared in 1657 and 1665. He dropped the term “English” in the second edition and thereafter the books were simply called The Dancing Master. The books evidently filled a real need in Englishmen's lives and copies were very likely carried or shipped to country homes and colonial outposts as soon as they appeared in Playford’s shop.

The series eventually grew to eighteen editions of the first volume (1651–1728), four of a second (1710–1728), and two of a third (1719?–1726?) and long out-lived its originator. The three volumes eventually encompassed 1,053 unique dances and their music. Many were copied from one edition to the next so that the entire contents, with duplicates, amounts to 6,217 dances, including 186 tunes without dances and 3 songs (Dunmore Kate, Mr. Lane's Magot, and The Quakers Dance).

For this publication every dance was reduced to a code enabling comparison with similar dances. The unique or “Ur” dances were identified and collected into a database where each dance’s printing history and other information is summarized and a facsimile of the dance and its music is included. The Index presents every item by title with links to the Ur Dance Index. The Title/Link takes the reader to a bibliography of the sources. Searches can be made on all text entries as well as on the dance coding to find instances of specific dance figures in juxtaposition with others.

I am grateful to the English Folk Dance and Song Society, the University of Glasgow, the British Library, the Library of Congress, the University of New Hampshire and the Country Dance and Song Society for permission to include images from editions of The Dancing Master in their collections. I am also particularly grateful to the University of New Hampshire and William Ross, Head, Milne Special Collections and Archives, for hosting this database on the University's servers for Internet access.

Robert M. Keller”

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“Performing editions of historical lute songs are very difficult to come by. Lutenists and singers have had to double as scholars and make their own editions, either from the original sources or by cutting and pasting from scholarly editions that are completely unsuitable for the performer in their published format.

What's more, even informed scholars and performers routinely make the grevious error of taking early manuscript and printed sources at face value by transposing lute parts to fit the written vocal line. This was never intended by the original performers of the music. The voice was always a transposing instrument and was pitched to a comfortable and pleasant range or, in the case of lute songs, to match the tuning of the lute.  ..“

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“The Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of J.S. Bach's cantatas and his other vocal works. The BCW contains discussions and detailed discographies of each cantata and other vocal works, performers and general topics. The BCW also contains texts and translations, scores, music examples, articles and interviews, and over 6,800 short biographies of performers of Bach's vocal works and players of his keyboard and lute works, as well as of poets & composers associated with Bach. There are also other relevant resources such as the Lutheran church year, database of chorale texts & melodies and their authors, detailed discographies of many Bach's instrumental works (solo keyboard, lute, Art of Fugue, Musical Offering, etc.) and piano transcriptions and their performers, reviews and discussions of Bach’s instrumental works, books and movies on Bach, terms and abbreviations, schedule of concerts of Bach's vocal works, Bach Festivals & Cantata Series, guide to Bach tour, Bach in arts and memorabilia, thousands of links to other relevant resources. The BCW is an international collective project, being compiled from various postings about the subject, most of which have been sent to the Bach Mailing Lists.“

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Édition Fayard (France)

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“Back in the 1970's I was Microfilm Librarian for the Lute Society of America, and the keeper of the largest collection of lute music in the world. Ever since then I have enjoyed copying music from the original sources, fixing andy mistakes I found, and arranging it for cittern, lute/orpharion or ensembles. These days I am particularly interested in wire-strung instruments, and I play mostly English music on orpharions, bandora and cittern. I have enjoyed music I copied from Sarge Gerbode's web site and now inspired by it, I would like to share my music with other musicians. -- Nancy Carlin“

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“ The Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music is a service offered by the Society of Seventeenth-Century Music to its members and to the musical community at large. It presents new editions of seventeenth-century compositions that have remained unpublished or that are not available commercially. WLSCM hopes to include editions of all types, from short lute and keyboard pieces to selections from (or even entire) operas and oratorios. When available, sound recordings of these works will accompany the editions.

Editions are selected and reviewed by an Editorial Board of specialists in seventeenth-century music. As such, WLSCM is pioneering the online publication of refereed (peer-reviewed) musical editions. WLSCM invites the submission of additional editions.“

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“The "Edition Musica Poetica" is a music publisher of lesser-known music of the 17th and 18 Century North German composers. Central to the Edition project is the publication of the "Monuments of the Early Modern Music," an anthology of the monuments of the late 19th and early 20 Century-oriented editions.” … (Google Translate)

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“This site houses an extensive, growing archive of texts to 102,452 settings of Lieder and other classical art songs (Kunstlieder, mélodies, canzoni, романсы, canciones, liederen, canções, sånger, laulua, písně, piosenki, etc.) and other classical vocal pieces such as short choral works, madrigals and part-songs, in over 100 languages, with 12,892 volunteer translations to English, French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages.

In this collection there are currently 64,356 texts associated with musical settings. Of these, 25,333 have not yet been located and are placeholders for cross-referencing, and 3,389 are hidden due to copyright restrictions, leaving 35,634 entirely visible to visitors. When possible, first lines are shown. “

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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library contains the principal rare books and literary manuscripts of Yale University and serves as a center for research by students, faculty, and other scholars, whether affiliated with Yale or not. Materials do not circulate, but may be used in the Reading Room on the court level after researchers register with the Beinecke.

One of the largest buildings in the world devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, the library has room in the central tower for 180,000 volumes and in the underground book stacks for over 600,000 volumes; it now contains about 500,000 volumes and several million manuscripts. Temperature and humidity controls ensure that stored materials are protected for future generations. ..”

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“The Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, is at the cutting edge of scientific progress.

We support many top young scientists, engineers and technologists, influence science policy, debate scientific issues with the public and much more. We are an independent, charitable body which derives our authoritative status from over 1400 Fellows and Foreign Members.“

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“Founded in 1999, Symétrie is exclusively dedicated to music and offers books in musicology, writings and correspondences of musicians, essays, dictionaries, novels as well as scores (from baroque music to contemporary music), journals and scientific databases. Symétrie is the associate editor of the “Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française.””

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“The Clavis music publications were established with the aim of researching, making available and publishing lesser known and unpublished Renaissance and Baroque music and to provide new study material for professional musicians.

The idea of publishing music and in particular Baroque music , was inspired by a long term collaboration with the L’Ensemble Recitar Cantando from Pesaro, a group of young musicians and scholars specialised in 15^th – 18^th century vocal and instrumental music, chamber music, prose theatre and the musicological study of historical sources.

In 2004 L’Ensemble Recitar Cantando was awarded first prize ( the Arcangelo Corelli Award) in the “Dino Caravita” contest in the Ancient Chamber Music section.

As Clavis intends to expand and extend the music publications we would be very happy to receive and evaluate any proposals from scholars, musicians or music lovers who wish to submit works to our editorial team. “

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“Ut Orpheus Edizioni is a specialized publishing house, founded in Bologna in 1994 with the purpose both to discover and promote the rich Italian and European musical heritage of the past centuries and to propose itself as a vehicle for the diffusion of the contemporary musical culture.

In the past few years Ut Orpheus has rapidly achieved a relevant place among the leading international publishing houses, gaining the praise of some of the most outstanding representatives of musical culture, and establishing non episodic relations with prestigious performers, musicologists and institutions, among whom Riccardo Muti, the Salzburg Festival, the Ravenna Festival, Christopher Hogwood, Kenneth Gilbert, Hopkinson Smith.

Ut Orpheus publishes the Opera Omnia of Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Francesco Geminiani, and the complete editions of Alessandro Scarlatti's keyboard works, Claudio Monteverdi's madrigals and sacred music, Johann Sebastian Bach's lute works. It has recently started an important and innovative project aimed at the critical edition in diplomatic transcription of the Ars Nova codices. Starting from 2007, the journal 'Ad Parnassum', now in its seventh year, was included in the 'Musicology initial list' of the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH). The catalogue gives particular relevance to the music for harp, guitar, recorder and keyboard instruments, as well as to the 20th century repertoire and the new authors, significantly including jazz and ethnic music.

Ut Orpheus Edizioni's catalogue presently houses over 1600 entries and it is distributed worlwide.”

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“Rummage on these pages for notes for recorders (and othe instruments) and for art reproductions or music seminars. Find out about the ensemble competition with workshops, courses and exhibition in Bruchsal/Baden Württemberg.

Look at title pictures and score examples.

We deliver scores in foreign countries for the real costs.

You can download our annual prospect in 2009 with all new titles as a PDF document or print out.

However, they can also order our newsletter or you can send us a message.

 Have fun while rummaging.”

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Did Bach really mean that?  by Colin Booth

“Did Bach Really Mean That? Deceptive Notation in Baroque Keyboard Music is an introduction to some of the most important conventions underlying the notation used by Baroque composers. Without an understanding of these conventions, a modern performer can fall into a literal reading of the score, which can sometimes result in either a partial, or a mistaken interpretation. Such a performance may not only be different from what the composer intended: it may also be simplistic and unexciting.

Colin’s long-standing concern for possible meanings lying beneath the surface of notation, was particularly encouraged by twenty years of teaching by Colin Tilney (at Dartington and at other summer schools) and by discussions with Dr. John Byrt, a passionate advocate of idiomatic rhythmic performance of apparently equal notes.

The book originated in a series of lectures given at Dartington International Summer School. Colin was repeatedly asked by participants, whether the content of the lectures was to be available as a book, and the present volume is the result of a further decade of work to that end. It eventually took the form of a systematic exploration of notational conventions, from the most basic (note-length and touch) through to rhythmic complexities, notational formulae, and certain aspects of ornamentation.

Far from imposing any rules, however, the book can liberate players from a literal dependence upon the score, reveal hidden possibilities within it, and enable performers to get that bit closer to the mindset of Baroque composers themselves. J.S.Bach was and is the most important of these, and Colin’s recording of the Goldberg Variations is not just a personal “take” on this magnificent work, but an audible demonstration of his understanding of certain features of it, as explored in the book. “

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