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Offline svetlaya

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Messian's scores
on: July 20, 2010, 11:55:43 AM
Hello!I'm looking for following scores by O.Messiaen: Trois mélodies, Vocalise-Etude, Harawi, Chants de terre et de ciel, Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes.Is there somebody who can help me? I'll be grateful to you.

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Re: Messian's scores
Reply #1 on: July 20, 2010, 12:07:39 PM
Hello!I'm looking for following scores by O.Messiaen: Trois mélodies, Vocalise-Etude, Harawi, Chants de terre et de ciel, Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes.Is there somebody who can help me? I'll be grateful to you.
All the information that I imagine you will need is to be found here at https://www.oliviermessiaen.org/messiaen2index.htm.

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Alistair
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Offline kepler

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Re: Messian's scores
Reply #2 on: July 23, 2010, 06:05:13 AM
you can try your luck on amazon. the cheapest option would be abebooks.com, but i have had problems with them not sending my stuff. Sheet music plus should have them, but at full price. Or, you could go to the local university library and see if they have them there. I went to the university of houston library to check out messiaen scores.

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Re: Messian's scores
Reply #3 on: July 23, 2010, 08:59:08 AM
Thank you! :)

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Re: Messian's scores
Reply #4 on: July 23, 2010, 09:17:33 AM
And what about di-arezzo? Your opinion...  Did you try to  order the scores there?

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Re: Messian's scores
Reply #5 on: July 23, 2010, 09:31:21 AM
And what about di-arezzo? Your opinion...  Did you try to  order the scores there?
Most good classical music stores should be able to supply these things to you, even if they have to order some or all of them first; their prices may not necessarily be any higher than those of online suppliers.

Anyway - good luck!

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Re: Messian's scores
Reply #6 on: July 23, 2010, 10:51:04 AM
I have found the carriage charges to be rather horrific at Di-Arezzo, but i think they have the largest amount of messian's scores available.

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Re: Messian's scores
Reply #7 on: July 23, 2010, 10:53:17 AM
the cheapest option would be abebooks.com, but i have had problems with them not sending my stuff.

There are some sheet music dealers on Abe that should be used with caution, but they are easily identified by the lack of stars in their rating.

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