Publc Domain

FSU summer music camp was awesome, but it presented a problem to me. I got immensely interested in orchestral excerpts throughout the camp but found little resources in gathering them. Of course, there's the method of shelling out hundreds of dollars to gather all those books (which the publishers probably intentionally seperate into tiny books to milk more profits) but music is not my profession, I can't spend so much money on it.

Recently though, the publication of the Orchestra Musician CD Library has helped. Instead of only having a few parts, it gives the complete parts and allowing more stuff to be condensed together into a digital format. Yet it is not perfect. Take a look at the part from the clarinet concerto 1 by Weber (the clarinet part): 

Yes, it says tacet. They don't even bother to give you the solo, which is in the public domain. 

I appreciate the efforts of the maintainer of people at Mutopia and the other projects trying to encorporate the various public domain peices together. Still, unlike math where there's kongregates of the problems, there's no kongregate for the orchestral excerpts (or for that matter, solos that's out into public domain). That's very frustrating.

Now I have a new project for the summer, to create a Latexed book of clarinet orchestral solos that's public domain.

Wish me luck.

-runiteking1

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