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Offline ramseytheii

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Downloading scores
on: May 05, 2008, 09:32:06 PM
Now that gf index is gone, and IMSLP is in limbo, where is a good source for lots of scores?  Today for instance I was looking for a perfectly public domain score, Liszt's Gnomenreigen.  Here you have to pay for a gold to download it.  The index used to have a collection of links where, if it wasn't on gf, I could find it somewhere on those links.  Now I don't know where to look for a centralized collection of links or scores.  Any tips?>  You can also pm me.

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Walter Ramsey

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Re: Downloading scores
Reply #1 on: May 05, 2008, 09:44:08 PM
For us musicians, the music of Beethoven is the pillar of fire and cloud of mist which guided the Israelites through the desert.  (Roughly quoted, Franz Liszt.)

Offline retrouvailles

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Re: Downloading scores
Reply #2 on: May 06, 2008, 01:17:04 AM
Now that gf index is gone

You can still request stuff in the sheets thread and get what you need if someone fulfills the request.

Offline ramseytheii

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Re: Downloading scores
Reply #3 on: May 06, 2008, 01:04:15 PM
That's true but I am looking for stable sources where if I need a score, I can go find it posted!

Thanks for the links above.  Someone should start a page, just with links on it as a centralized thing.

Walter Ramsey


Offline remy

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Re: Downloading scores
Reply #4 on: May 06, 2008, 07:48:06 PM
Walter,

The Henselt Library of Nineteenth-Century Piano Music at European-American University has a wonderful collection of rare scores:

https://www.henseltlibrary.org/sources.html

Most of these scores were originally posted at gamingforce and pianophilia, but are now deleted from both sites.

I also recommend going to https://www.pianophilia.com/pun/ regularly.

IMSLP will be back in operation on July 1, 2008, with their complete score collection intact.


remy

Offline rachfan

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Re: Downloading scores
Reply #5 on: May 06, 2008, 09:43:02 PM
I agree with remy.  There are many knowledgeable and helpful people at Pianophilia.  Just a few days ago one of the members there provided the "Three Poems" of Frank Bridge to me in PDF.  You can often locate some really hard-to-find scores there.
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