Although I understand all of the issues, including compensating ppl for their time, charging money for facsimiles is basically evil, and in the long run everyone will be better served by having more music available--more concerts, more audience, more work. What all libraries should do is just put it all online, and then if someone wants to make an edition and sell it, fine. Just make a PDF, and upload it, and I guarantee that everyone will benefit. This also prevents players from owning a repertory by limiting access.
If scholars want to sell the commentary as a separate book, that is also fine, and continues an established tradition. dt At 12:32 PM 11/10/2010, you wrote: > Still something that I don't get: > > why are some public (public) libraries slowly making all their MS > available as a digital download - and I'm thinking about the the > Bayerisch Staatsbibliothek here in Munich, between others -, while > there are other PUBLIC libraries (hello, British Library ...) - that > still do not even seem to envisage that ... > > Shall we (as single members of the list) put some pressure on our local > libraries? Send an email to the curators of their music departments - > maybe as rightful, registered members of the library, as I guess some > of us are - and ask about it? > (Of course, this doesn't want to diminuish at all the value of such > pubblication as the Dd.2.11 by the Lute Society. The scholarship part > is something you dont get in a digital facsimile ...) > Your opinion, listers? > Matteo > On 10 November 2010 20:19, Denys Stephens > <[1][email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > It's also worth noting that whilst some > of > the world's libraries are making digital copies of their musical > sources > available, there is currently no expectation that this, or indeed > any of the > Cambridge University Library manuscripts will become available as > free > electronic downloads. > Denys > > -- > >References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
