Perhaps you might think about spending some money and buying it, rather than deceiving yourself that downloading it is morally defensible.īTW, I have read with interest the many discussions on these forums about music publishers and their greed and venality. There's an excellent study score published for sale it costs money, that stuff that people usually hope to earn when they work. This would be a perfect project for a grad (or even advanced undergrad) student in musicology. But even then, without the further ability to trace the publishing history of a piece (via copies of a work used by the engraver or other editor such as Campbell-Watson) I still think it would be difficult to disentangle what might be public domain from what isn't. I have not yet compared any of these facsimiles to an engraved published score. Gershwin's hand is not as distinctive as Bach's or Beethoven's, for example. They are good enough to make out the handwriting but not good enough for someone not an expert in Gershwin's hand to distinguish his corrections from anybody elses (which is normally done by noting the use of a different pen or pencil). Unfortunately, they are monochrome and not very good reproductions at that. Carolus wrote: (some of which were published in facsimile) should be fine, provided they don't include additions by other hands
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