I hesitate to respond, but here goes. There is no world wide problem and us younger generation people don't want everything for free (and we all don't waste our money on fancy clothes and parties like you imply). However I do value accessibility. Most classical music pieces that people play are in the public domain and are already FREE. I believe that these scores should be as accessible as possible to everybody. The best way to do that these days is to scan them in and put them up online for others to view. Many libraries (i.e. libraries at eastman, juliard, indiana university, etc.) are doing exactly this. Just because this activity was more difficult in the past doesn't mean we should make it just as difficult today. I seriously hope that one day the parts for Mahler 9 will become available for FREE, which would be great.
-----Jay > There is a world wide problem now: > > you want everything for FREE, which is not good. If one is > ready to play Mahler 9, one can invest & should invest > something to build up ones own library, not from copies, but > from real things. That´s we did & we had less access & less > funds. But we did it. We simply did spend less on fancy > clothings, parties ....... That´s the way. Johnatan said it > in the right way: buy the CD for 20.- $ & you get a bunch of > parts. Well, you dont need all of them at the moment, but > might be in the future. > > How can one build up knowledge, if one just buys the actual > necessary ???? One has to know more than the phrases given > in a list for an audition. It does not help in the long > term. If you know just the solo, what to do with the other > spots or the whole symphony or opera ? If you are prepared > at best technically, good, if you are a well prepared sight > reader, better, if you know how to play the whole pieces > from listening too, best. You dont need to have played > everything to acquire this skills, but you need to get a > feeling what can be with Wagner or Strauss or Brahms or > Beethoven or Strawinsky or Mahler .... > _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
