May - June 2010

May - June 2010

News and information hotline: 416-421-0779 Web: www.cammac.ca Email: [email protected] April - May - June 2010 In this issue: Computer Resources for Amateur Musicians 1 Thanks to Soloists 7 Schedule of Readings 3 Toronto Region AGM, May 30 7 CAMMAC RPS; OMC & Friends Concert 3 Playing opportunities; Concert Listings 8 Chamber Music / Flute Workshop (reports) 4 Are you a CAMMAC Ambassador 10 Reading, Sunday April 18 (Beethoven) 5 Superb Sudoku 11 Reading, Sunday May 30 (Mozart) 6 Regional Committee members / contacts 12 Computer resources for amateur musicians – Part II By Blair Mackenzie An astonishing range of sheet music is now available to amateur musicians over the Internet. In this article we will look briefly into where you can find it. You can purchase music through a traditional print publisher of sheet music by finding and buying it online and having it delivered to you by mail. You can purchase music online which you download or which comes to you at once by e-mail. You can purchase, over the Internet, CDs containing large collections of sheet music. The CD comes by mail and you print what you need, as and when you need it. You can also find much good quality sheet music, some in recent scholarly editions, available for free. All of the websites discussed in this article (including the for - free sites) are or appear to be fully legitimate, copyright compliant sites. But the music is not all equally well edited, so buyer / user beware. All the traditional sheet music publishers have websites at which you can search their catalogues and buy music online for delivery to you by mail. Increasingly, you can view sample pages from the music you are considering purchasing. Sites of interest include www.barenreiter.com., www.edition-peters.com., www.fredrickharrismusic.com. and www.schott-music.com. Entire collections of sheet music can be purchased on CD from www.cdsheetmusic.com. This site offers a comprehensive selection of published scores and sheet music by composers from the baroque, classical, romantic and modern eras, including works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano, strings, winds, voice, and chorus. For example, one CD contains every work by Beethoven for solo piano, some 1500 pages of music in all, for US$19.95. Another contains over 100 arias for bass/ baritone from operas from the 18th to the 20th century, plus another 100 songs and arias from 17th c. Italian composers – 1300 pages or more of music, also for $19.95. For orchestral musicians, www.orchmusiclibrary.com is a useful site. All music at that site is in the public domain, and so the editions may not be as modern as those available at other sites in this category. (continued page 2) CAMMAC Toronto Region Newsletter April - May - June 2010 1 Sheet music can also be bought online for immediate download. A good site in this category is www.everynote.com. It claims to be the largest and most complete digital sheet music library with over 20,000 popular and hard-to-find music scores by over 1000 composers. Last year, Kathleen ordered printed music for a Dvorak quintet we wanted to play at CAMMAC. The day she ordered it, I went to EveryNote.com and downloaded our parts, which were from the same, modern, edition. The printed version arrived by mail three weeks later. The only difference was the undeniable advantage of the heavier, larger and bound pages of the professionally printed edition. Similar sites include www.classicalarchives.net., www.sheetmusicplus.com. and www.virtualsheetmusic.com. Some quite interesting music by contemporary composers can be sampled at, bought at and downloaded from www.sibelius.com by visiting the Music Store. If you are a string player, be sure to visit www.mymusicscores.com. This site is run by an affable Scots viola player, Paul Wood, who set up the site in order to share access to his growing library of music which he has arranged or transcribed for his students and the string orchestras he leads. For a very modest annual fee you have access to music for, or arranged for string duo, trio, quartet or string orchestra. For example, you will find here all the Corelli Op. 6 and Handel Op. 6 Concerti Grossi in very lightly edited editions. Some works are also available without charge. You are welcome to use any of this for non-commercial purposes, including performance in front of a paid audience by the typical non-profit community orchestras that so many of us belong to. And if you find a typo in one of the scores, Mr. Wood will fix it. There are many sites at which sheet music of interest to amateurs is available for free. An important site is http://imslp.org., home of the International Music Score Library Project. Its aim is to create a virtual library of all public domain music scores. Because of copyright restrictions, the editions are generally rather old ones which may have been edited in a rather Romantic manner. But the range of materials currently available is impressive. For J.S. Bach alone you will find here sheet music for all the Brandenburgs, the orchestral suites, every cantata, the Magnificat, the Mass in B Minor, the Passions, the violin concerti, keyboard concerti and more. For a similar choral music site, see www.cpdl.org. There are sites offering free music for a wide range of interests. A range of early Canadian music is available at www.collectionscanada.gc.ca; follow the links to the online sheet music collection of the Public Archives. For 16th and 17th c. music, be sure to try www.baroquemusic.it, http://icking-music-archive.org and www.lysator.liu.se/~tuben/scores. These are particularly useful, well edited sites. Just how many sheet music sites are out there? Who knows! A random Google search for “schubert lieder sheet music” turned up 25,500 responses in 0.33 seconds. So turn on your computer and find out for yourself what a world of sheet music awaits you over the Internet! Please read and respect the terms of use, or licence terms, which apply to music which you download. Different sites take different approaches to this. For example, music purchased from www.cdsheetmusic.com is intended for use only in your home or in an ‘educational’ setting. By contrast, music downloaded from the Tufvesson site is marked ‘Non-commercial copying welcome’. Mr Tufvesson’s site makes it clear that any non-profit group is welcome to use his music in performance, and you may charge “as much as you can” as an admission fee. [email protected] CAMMAC Toronto Region Newsletter April - May - June 2010 2 SCHEDULE OF READINGS information please contact John Ferth at the Recorder 2009-2010 SEASON Centre, 984 Dovercourt Rd., or 416-534-7931. The fee is $80 per year for members of CAMMAC. All readings are in Elliott Hall, Christ Church Deer For those who prefer to pay per session, regular Park, 1570 Yonge Street, Toronto, from 2 p.m. sharp meetings are $10 for CAMMAC members and $12 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoons. Members $6 / for others, while coached sessions are $15 and $20 non-members $10. respectively. Please bring your own music stand. Also, bring your CAMMAC membership card with April 18: Errol Gay conducts Beethoven’s Missa you on your first visit, which is free for newcomers. Solemnis, for singers and instrumentalists. For further information, call Ricci Balogh at 416- 694-9266. Dates for the balance of the season: April May 30: Howard Dyck conducts Mozart’s Mass in 16; April 25 (Spring Workshop with Shannon C minor, for singers and instrumentalists. Purves-Smith); May 7; May 28. 2010 – 2011 SEASON MUSICAL CHAIRS Please note the following dates for Readings to be held in 2010-2011: Sept. 26; Oct. 17; Nov. 21; Jan. Are you looking for a music mate, someone with 23; Feb. 13 (singers only); Mar. 27; May 8; and whom to make some music? We keep a list of others May 29 (AGM). Watch for details in the next issue also looking! Please get in touch with our Musical of the Newsletter! Conductors confirmed so far: Chairs group (416-962-4847). Erna van Daele; Kevin Komisaruk; Claudio Vena. NOTE TO ASPIRING VOCAL SOLOISTS OMC AND FRIENDS CONCERTS Most of the pieces that we work on at our Sunday by Pat Agnew readings have vocal solo parts. Sometimes members of the choir sing these parts together. Sometimes the If you missed the most enjoyable OMC and Friends conductor invites his/her own soloists, and sometimes Concert on February 21, it was your loss…but you we find people to sing these parts at the readings. If have another opportunity to strut your stuff! Please you are an experienced singer and you’d like to give come and take part in the final OMC and Friends it a try, please contact the reading coordinator or Concert to be held on Sunday April 25. At least one Kathy Gallyas at least a month ahead of the reading member of each group must be a CAMMAC member date so this possibility can be discussed. and your selection/s must not exceed 8 minutes. The deadline for entries is April 11. Please register with me by e-mail to [email protected] or 416-694- 9848. Include the titles of the works, the composers, CAMMAC RECORDER PLAYERS’ accurate timing, the names of all performers and their SOCIETY instrument or voices. The concert will be held at Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd (1 The Recorder Players’ Society meets on intermittent block north of Eglinton and Yonge) from 2:30 to Friday evenings at the Church of the Transfiguration, 4:30.

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