Long Awaited Score Arrives!
This was something that I really should have purchased when I was still living in Europe... but we got distracted with moving to the other side of the planet... and I forgot. But, there is still a lot of facsimiles of original music prints that I'm itching to get my hands on... and all the publishers are in Europe. Sure, I can get copies of them online at IMSLP, but it isn't the same when you have digital versions. When you have a physical version... well, it sits there begging you to try it out and play it. Whilst a digital one tends to get stored somewhere on a hard-drive and forgotten about. I think I will end up printing and binding the digital copies as well... but for the time being, I will still order physical copies!
Plus, the printed sets do come so beautifully bound in leather and nice thick paper as well... sure the blobs on the page are the same, but there is something just memorable about the tactile feeling of something that is beautifully crafted!
So, this is the long awaited facsimile that I was opening... a treatise and pieces for the viola d'amore by the Parisian Baroque composer, publisher, and enthusiast of the viola d'amore... Huberty! Someone I had met in Austria had compiled a facsimile of this important work... and I really wanted to get my hands on it. Plus, I was performing a few pieces already from the book, so I figured that it would be great to have the actual copy in my sweaty little hands!
Ahhhhh... and it is lovely! I can't wait to start using it for real in concerts! That is actually coming right around the corner already!
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That probably sounds epic but I can barely read it XD Youngest thought it was Arabic.
Haha close I guess...
I remember scouring through scores like this during Uni on the 7th floor of the library. Some John Adams and such. Not part of my course assignments or anything, I just loved the size, touch, smell, and the fact nobody else was on the 7th floor lol. And I had no friends.
I always noticed how much more I could learn, somehow, by having the physical copy, rather than staring at a PDF version. Can't explain it but something about running my fingers through the notes made such a difference.
I know what you are saying... there is just something about seeing things fixed in a physical position, on a page or within the book that links it to our memory and other senses. The digital versions... I'm a tech-nerd, but I just can't use it for music. And all the side scrawls and everything... before they are "cleaned" and sanitised...