Hrm. Do you have any scores of 19th century Australian composers (with an active music scene, the orchestral ensembles must have wanted quartets to play when not on duty to play in orchestra and opera, before Hill started writing his, e.g.) If not, perhaps a locally reachable or interloanable library does? Eric 18:59, 26 January 2009 (EST)
I have some (a low moderate?) amount of experience doing certain kinds of research that may be helpful here, I'll see if I can find anything - a piano piece from that period (hrm. ... given that the composer died long enough ago? I'm already beginning to forget some of the relevant etc) would be uploadable, and while the only library I can think of is Melbourne's, there's others that come up in Worldcat.org searches in Australia... Eric 10:52, 7 March 2009 (EST)
(Found, by worldcat-search on "waltz melbourne" just on a guess it might turn up something (waltz hobart would have been better in this case), a waltz in a major Hobart library, for instance, pub. poss. in Launceston about 1880; but not a lending copy- the "Beautiful South Esk waltz" by T. H. Bosworth - hopefully if that was so quickly found, though, even better examples can be found in a little more time, possibly in music stores rather than libraries. Don't know. Will try to get back to you with something more definite; apologies for the spamming! Eric 11:05, 7 March 2009 (EST) (note: greenstone.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/cgi-bin/library.exe?a=d&c=music&d=128052925 is its front cover, stored at the Tasmanian library. Not front cover- the whole thing is _scanned in_ there!!!)
I expect you're right about the Bohemian Dance, I moved it over from another composer the attribution to whom I was told was equally shaky. As to Australian music 19th-c etc., the Australian National Libraries online have some wonderful scanning projects for music published there - sometimes written by Australian composers, sometimes not (and sometimes music written by Australian composers and published elsewhere) - that is somewhat along the lines of our, soon I'm sure to be somewhat defunded (sigh. just guessing though.), Library of Congress American Memory project if I may make such a comparison (only intended to be highly complimentary. sorry about all the tangents :) ). Anyhow, one of the many interesting scores - and one of the more "substantial" ones... that they've scanned in is the Theme, Variations and Fugue, Op.5, by Frederick Septimus Kelly (admittedly rather... Busonian or Regerian?... in conception?... not a complaint from me!) Eric 15:18, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi M.J.E., a better scan of the Eclogue is available. Regards, Hobbypianist 20:19, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi. See my reply here. ClassicalComposers
I finally got around to responding to your pointing out instruments I forgot in "Hymn to Wikipedia." Picardy Third 06:42, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Ok, contacted Sibley. in my experience they're often very good about getting back to one and as good as they can be about trying to fix the problem (given that the items are sometimes offsite, etc., I should say I definitely do -not- mean "only as good as they can get away with" - on the contrary, I get the impression of really dedicated librarians and really do mean to praise.) Eric 19:54, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
Just thought it might interest you to know that I'm trying to raise funds to put on a concert with John's Vuvuzela Concerto on it: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/757108492/bring-the-vuvuzela-concerto-to-detroit?ref=live I would also take the opportunity to get recordings of some pieces for IMSLP, like Michael Haydn's Turkish March and Asplmayer's Symphony in C major. Alonso del Arte 22:19, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
the full parts of a couple have been uploaded (first edition, I think) - opus 30, also I think opus 15 is @ BSB and will upload here soon. Eric 02:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
