Why is French organ sheet music so expensive?

[QUOTE=tumult_in_the_praetorium;158266]Dover Publications have some great collections and reprints which are cheap.

Piano Files is another place where you can trade music with others in PDF format.

Alternatively, you can send me a message telling me what you're looking for and I can see if I have it.



I am looking for Evocation by Jean Langlais...included in Hommage a Rameau book. The book is $35-50 online. All I want is the last piece, Evocation
Thanks,
Tom

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Hello</p>

French organ music is not allways expensive. Why don't you try this book I have written :</p>

THE MONSTER ORGAN BOOK - 28.70 € printed or 15 € downloaded
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http://www.lulu.com/product/couvertu...n-book/4765967
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333 pages of organ music - 62 scores. :
Passacailles,
Marche Nuptiale du Soldat,
Toccata negra, Toccata Notturna, Retroccata, Funeral Toccata,
Choral en Si mineur,
Toccata en Sol mineur,
Offertoire,
Jonesey's Wedding March,
Marches Nuptiales,
Prelude en Mi bémol majeur
Preludium en Ut majeur
Adagio en Fa mineur
Prélude en Fa mineur
Fugue en Ré mineur Dorienne ... and more.

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[Victor Jules]

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Never too late to add to a good thread! The collection you describe sounds like material frequently, enjoyably accessed here: </p>

http://www.organlibrary.org/sales/index.html</p>

The Frisco AGO has similar deal: </p>

http://www.sfago.org/music-sale.html </p>

I find that if I wait a while most everything I want comes along cheap or free.
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greg ;</p>

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I know the organist he has writting the cochereau improvisations.</p>

If you want, contact me with private message.</p>

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Since starting this thread a year and half ago, I have collected quite a bit of French organ music. Lot's of it from ebay. I got Durand Vierne symphonies 3 &amp; 5 brand new for £4 each and I now have lots of second hand Langlais, Messiaen, Pierne, Dupre, Alain, Guilmant and others.</p>

I would like to complete the Vierne &amp; Widor symphonies and Cochereau improvisations.
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[indianajo]

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Thanks for the tip on quality Schott music. Out here in the middle we don't get to see anything exotic before we buy it. Another French brand I was happy with, I bought a Durand S.AL Edition of Debussy Preludes in 1982 (yeah, piano stuff) and it was nice and white quality paper, laid flat nicely, 9"x12" pages the old fashioned way, very pleasant. How do the metric French do 9"x12" paper when the US is stuck mostly on 8 1/2x11 stock, a bad idea left over from WWII?
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i'm french organist</p>

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i can send your favorite music...
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i'm living in french.</p>

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i can send your favorite music !
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I realize that this thread is rather old, and am sorry for bringing it back from the dead, but the book "French Masterworks for Organ" is 64 pages for US$8.95, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); line-height: 16px; ">Includes: Adagio in C Minor (Louis Vierne) * Allegretto (Louis Vierne) * Andante Sostenuto, from Gothic Symphony (Charles M. Widor) * Carillon-Sortie (Henri Mulet) * Communion (Louis Vierne) * Grand Chorus Dialogue (Eugene Gigout) * Meditation (Gabriel Dupont) * Meditation Religieuse (Henri Mulet) * Prayer (Rene Vierne) * Toccata (Eugene Gigout).</span></p>

Now, it hasn't arrived yet, and isn't likely to for a few weeks, (living in New Zealand, one has to be used to waiting a while for thing to be delivered, if they are purchased online) so I can't comment on how well it is bound, and so on, but when it does, I will let you all know. </p>

It's certainly not too expensive!</p>

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Awwww.... Greg's got a new icon :p :)))) What happened to that poor kitty's nose? :o Does it read French sheet music?</P>

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I can't resist a kitty....;.))</P>


Try this,</P>


http://musicreprints.free.fr/Boutique/</P>


and if you need a translation ...</P>


Pierre</P>

[nullogik]

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If there were a "thanks" button on the forum I would be clicking it right now, Tumult.</p>

Thanks anyway, that seems like a great site!
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[tumult_in_the_praetorium]

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I'm not sure how legal the following site is, but you can trade scores with others on there. I've managed to get hold of quite a few organ scores on there by Langlais, Dupre, Mulet, Hakim, etc.

www.pianofiles.com

[Victor Jules]

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Hi -- sorry but I've lost where I noted them down. But between Ebay, Amazon, ads in TAO &amp; Diapason, AND THRIFT SHOPS you should get everything. you need eventually. Hey, you wouldn't believe the hauls I've made of great organ scores the past year at local thrift shops, including rare items I or my students were in need of -- hundreds of dollars' worth! Admittedly, it's unusual, but it happens. I've also found major lodes in churches, left behind by previous organists. They just give it to me -- in one case a stack that looked like it had been sitting in the back of an antique organ case for about 60 years! </p>

Now you've got me bragging, er, counting my blessings, one of my coolest finds ever was a simple placard in an antique store in Saratoga Springs that finally boiled my main teaching motto down into five immortal words -- SLOW PRACTICE FOR FAST PROGRESS. It was an ancient John W. Schaum item. </p>

Often, of course, a simple Google search for your item (maybe with the word sale, price, or shipping thrown in, etc.) will turn up someone selling it second-hand. The internet just makes everything TOO easy -- we must work to save it!

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[nullogik]

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In my 20-30 minutes surfing this forum, I've collected four great-looking sheet music sites, most or all offering FREE masterworks in PDF or whatever. Organ sheet music CDs are out there -- you get a giant collection of PDFs for $10! </p>

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Out of interest what websites have come up trump for you with regards to PDF scores?</p>

As for organ sheet music CD/DVD like on EBay, I'm always wary of buying such items since you are never quite sure what the quality of the images are on the CD. Still I suppose for $10 its not a huge loss if the CD/DVD compilation disc is junk.
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