[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The recent post about William Marshall made me wonder where I can buy
books of his compositions.
The closer to the original the better; best of all are copies of originals.
Bob Rogers
South Carolina
The only collected Marshall I'm aware of is the Fiddlecase Books edition
called Marshall's Scottish Melodies, Airs, Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs c. for
the Violin. It's a repro of 4 volumes of his works (A Collection of
Strathspeys, Reels.. published 1781, Kinrara, pub. 1800, Marshall's Scottish
Airs pub. 1822, and Volume 2 of a Collection of Scottish Melodies... pub.
1845) but is problematic in that it's reproduced at probably less than 1/2
size, being about 6 x 8 inches in a spiral binding. Considering the quality
of print of the originals wasn't all that great to begin with, this size
makes it a little tough to sight-read the tunes. I've been tempted to
photocopy and enlarge the whole thing to make it more usable but the
publishers claim a copyright on the collection and I'm not sure if it's
legit to reproduce it (considering it's simply a reproduction of the
originals which are in public domain, plus a 1 page introduction, I don't
see how their copyright is valid, but what do I know?).
At any rate, Elderly Instruments has it for $12.35US; see
http://www.elderly.com/books/items/38-3.htm . -Steve
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Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California
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