Acquiring Sheet Music
Making contact with a reliable and knowledgeable source for sheet music is important. Furthermore, much excellent music for the baroque period is only available in facsimile form. Below is a list of
some sources for modern and facsimile editions of baroque period music.Travis & Emery in London which specializes in
out-of-print and 2nd-hand music
enquiries@travis-and-emery.com
King's Music
Redcoft, Banks End,
Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, BP 515, MC-98015 Monaco Cedex,
tel. 93 30 09 44,
fax. 93 30 19 15
Editions Minkoff, 8, rue Eynard, 1211 Geneva 12, Switzerland,
tel.
(41-22)204660, fax. (41-22)202857
http://www.minkoff-editions.com/
Minkoff also carry a wide range of their own original editions, which
mostly cover theses (both contemporary and modern) on early music performance,
and editions of sheet music. These edition are mostly in French, and strongly
oriented towards keyboard and chordal instruments, but they have a lot of
Boismortier, for example.
The Early Music Shop, 38 Manningham Lane, Bradford, West
Yorkshire BD1 3EA,
Tel. (0274) 393753
sales@earlyms.demon.co.uk
London Pro Musica Edition, 15 Rock Street, Brighton BN2 1NF,
Tel. (0273)622792, Fax. (0273)692974
SPFS (Studio per edizioni scelte), Lungarno Guicciardini, 9r,
50125
Florence, Italy, Fax. 055-280592
Editions J.M. Fuzeau, B.P. 6, 79440 Courlay, France
Von Huene Workshop
65 Boylston St
Brookline, MASS. 02146 U.S.A.
Tel (+1) (617) 277 8690
eric@vonhuene.com
June Emerson
Windmill Farm
Ampleforth, North Yorkshire
England YO6 4HF
+44-1439-788324 Fax -788715
JuneEmerson@compuserve.com
June Emerson Wind Music in the UK has the biggest stock of wind
and brass music in europe (and I think in the world), may be 20.000 titles in
her catalog. You can order by credit card, and shipping adds about 10-15% to the
price for overseas airmail (10 days to here in Korea) She also does special
orders of any other music including getting out of print items from publishers
archives as authorized photocopies. Finally, if you visit england, you can stop
buy and play for a day through any of the music in stock with your group ... (Nicolaus
Spoerel)
(Most of the above information was kindly supplied by Rachel
Bristley-Rubin. Thank you, Rachel. Other recommendations and comments welcomed)
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