No they wouldn't do that.
The holding library is in Frankfurt Germany (meaning that's where the manuscripts are based).
Now that library issues microfilms, but they're older and very poor quality compared to the Saur images.
When I asked the library in Germany would they scan the Saur, they told me they couldn't since it was copyrighted material.
Makes sense.
Kim Patrick Clow
On 7/20/06, Martin Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could you ask Harvard if they would be willing to make digital
photographs of the pages you want?
On Jul 20, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
> I recently was able to find a library that has a manuscript collection
> on microforms.
>
> Saur Verlag photographs large music manuscript collections in
> Europe;and then sell these collections to libraries or whoever wants
> a copy.
> I'm researching Telemann, so I was pretty excited when I found out
> that Harvard has a copy of the Telemann Frankfurt manuscript
> collection by Saur.
> This is the single largest collection of Telemann, with about 800
> cantata manuscripts (in parts and score).
>
> When I contacted Harvard and was on the telephone with staff at the
> music library, in an effort to make arrangements for a visit,
> themusic library was concerned when I mentioned I'dprintoutabout
> 250 pages, sincethis a commercial product (and copyrighted).
>
> I explained that 250 pages seemed like a lot, but it wasn't:
> acantata with score and parts would be about 40-60 sheets of
> manuscript paper. Four cantatas would be roughly 240 pages.
> I had to point out to her,itjustwasn't practical for meto spend 3
> days to go to Boston to Xerox a couple of pages from this collection.
> But thelibrary understood my concerns. They werevery helpfuland
> considerate. Top notch people.
>
> But this raised some questions in my mind.
>
> This collection costs 3,200.00 USD.
> It's so expensive, even most institutions have a hard time purchasing
> it.
> (I asked U.N.C. Chapell Hill if they would ever purchase this
> set."No. Too pricey for us."
>
> So what's a researcher like me supposed to do?
> I'm not a student. I'm not a teacher or professor at a college.
> And Saur doesn't issue partial sets of this collection. And I wonder
> if *technically* I am violating Saur's copyright with print outs?..
>
> No matter what happens with me in this case, the funny thing is,
> somewhere in Harvard'svast library system,
> there are students at Xerox machines, gleefully copying entire books.
>
>
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