Ahhhhh... I have two batches of music coming in from Europe. Normally, I'm able to source a good chunk of our music for our ensemble via facsimiles and old prints from the Baroque and Classical eras... and then sometimes, I have to contact archives, churches, and libraries directly to ask them to scan some source material... usually when it hasn't been published in the 1700-1800s when it was first composed. So, in those cases, there are only single existing manuscripts ... and so, I have to contact the owners or custodians directly...

... and that can sometimes be a real pain in the arse, as they aren't really set up for doing that sort of thing quickly. And sometimes, they take FOREVER to reply... or never really get around to it. Most of the time, the archives are hidden treasures that are locked away... and not really being looked after properly by anyone. Especially if it is a castle or a religious institution... as the archives aren't really the core purpose of the foundations that run those places. Libraries and archives are a different matter...

... but sometimes, there is a musician or scholar who has been to one of these places and taken scans and reproduced the compositions in either a modern form or a facsimile form...

But, these are pretty damn specific things in a highly specialised area of music... and that means that there are only a handful of publishers... and only a handful of stores that stock the editions. Thankfully, with the internet... these things are getting easier to get hold of... either through storefronts or direct from the scholar/musician.

And I do prefer it if they have digital copies... I can always print them later. But there is a bit of a reluctance to always do that... as people tend to just pirate them afterwards. So, physical editions are still a thing... and in some way, I do like that as having the physical copies means that my wife and I are more likely to stumble across them when we are looking for things to read though!

But with physical editions, comes shipping costs for sending packages to the other side of the planet!

... and that means for each of the specialised storefronts, I have a slowly growing wishlist of music filling up... until the point it becomes worthwhile to bundle all the purchases and pay the shipping fee!

So, two packages incoming... and this is the first... a lot of early German stuff... Schmelzer, things that I have really wanted to program for ages but have had difficulty in locating the source manuscripts.... and some English/Italian stuff... that I already have digital copies of, but I figured that it would be nice to have physical copies to add into the shipping!

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