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<font face="Calibri">There are books available on IMSLP, e.g.
Schenker's <i>Harmonielehre </i>(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://imslp.org/wiki/Harmonielehre_%28Schenker,_Heinrich%29">http://imslp.org/wiki/Harmonielehre_%28Schenker,_Heinrich%29</a>),
said there to be "public domain", which I doubt so far as Europe
is concerned. </font><br>
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There may be better depositories for books, though, such as
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>, or <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">http://www.gutenberg.org/</a>, which already
offer quite a lot in the field of music theory and probably are
better equipped than IMSLP to produce searchable documents. The pdf
version of Schenker's <i>Harmonielehre </i>available on IMSLP is
not searchable, while that on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.archive.org">www.archive.org</a> is. The reason
probably is that the latter has been scanned in a library (Boston
Public Library) equipped with OCR facilities. Unfortunately, OCR is
hardly available for many languages (including German in <i>Fraktur</i>
printing).<br>
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Nicolas Meeùs<br>
Université Paris-Sorbonne<br>
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Le 28/07/2011 08:36, Steve Haflich a écrit :
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It idly occurs to me that IMSLP would also be well-adapted to taking on
the tiny additional load of serving scans of out-of-copyright theory
materials, etc. They already deal successfully with the download issues
for the sometimes-different copyright status of works when downloaded to
different countries. All they need is a contributed scan of the work.
[...]
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