As we finish uploading the full orchestra scores we’ve been working on for the past few weeks, we’ve pulled and begun preparing the rest of the purely instrumental music to be digitized under our current grant. This includes full scores for string orchestra and band, as well as children’s music, with works by composers including Bach, Grainger, Grieg, Holst and Schumann. There’s still plenty of music to digitize after this though in our collections of vocal music, including operas, choruses, cantatas, and sacred and secular songs.
Joseph Holbrooke’s Jamaican Dances for the Young are an example of some of the children’s piano music we’ll be uploading soon.
In your circulating stacks is a violin sonata by the American composer Arthur Shepherd (M219 .S548) It was published by Senart on high-acid paper in the 1920s. When I examined your copy some thirty years ago, the paper was deeply yellowed and in poor condition. Although copyright may prevent the score from being freely distributed at this time, I do hope someone will digitalize it soon, before it completely disintegrates. It is a major American work of its period.
It looks like we have 2 copies of the 1927 Senart edition of the Shepherd sonata. Taking a look out in the stacks, it appears that one of them has undergone some repair work. Unfortunately, this score was published in 1927, so it’s not public domain and doesn’t fall under the current project. Hopefully future grants will allow us to digitize this!