Types of Scores We Use

Music Scores

Public domain scores vs licensed e-scores - Do you understand the difference?

Due to our lack of physical storage space for paper scores, starting this season we are asking choir members to take some responsibility for printing their own sheet music. Please communicate with Aditi (Librarian8mvs@gmail.com) if this is a hardship for you.

Any paper copies you make are yours to keep and use -- at least so long as you are in the choir. It’s important to be aware there are two very different types of e-score files we use.

Purchased licenses. The choir buys licenses to use scores that are the intellectual property of living artists and arrangers. You may use these materials only as a member of the choir. The total number of users at one time is limited to the number of licenses we buy. You are welcome to read these score files directly on a device (like an iPad); or to make printouts. If you leave the choir, you must delete and destroy all your copies.

Public Domain scores are freely available to the public. You can do anything you like with these files. Many are the work of artists long dead, typeset by community musicians like us (often found at cpdl.org). Some new works are made freely available by their creators, with « CC » or Creative Commons publication licenses.

This term we are asking you to print (or download/upload) your own copies of

⁃ Licensed scores

1. On Wings of Song

2. Red-Winged Blackbird

3. Songbird

4. Sparrow

⁃ Public Domain

1. Haydn The Heavens are Telling

2. Verdi Coro di Schiavi Ebrei

All of these files are made available to returning members and paid-up new members at our Google Drive:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lFF-6qjufchHXbT3aewChP2AVFDdIX3U

We will distribute licensed printouts of

1. Lyrics of Earth (April)

2. O for the Spirit

We will loan out paper published scores of

1. Angel

2. Heaven

3. Paradise

4. Up the Ladder

5. We Rise

The last 7 items should be returned right after the final concert. Two of these items are on loan to us from Atlantic Voices (another choir) so please be extra gentle with them. Use pencil lightly, and erase anything that’s not strictly performance-relevant.

Sheet music questions may be addressed directly to Aditi  (librarian8mvs@gmail.com).