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1Patentnonsense
I've got quite a few piano-vocal scores, and have started cataloguing them - do many of us do that?
A few have ISBNs, but most don't. I find that I'm often entering a Kalmus or International reprint of I-don't-know-what, and the reprint edition itself doesn't tell me very much.
I've posted a few questions on the Sheet Music group, but that group seems to be in a long tacet period just now.
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A few have ISBNs, but most don't. I find that I'm often entering a Kalmus or International reprint of I-don't-know-what, and the reprint edition itself doesn't tell me very much.
I've posted a few questions on the Sheet Music group, but that group seems to be in a long tacet period just now.
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2marietherese
I have catalogued a few scores (although no opera, as yet). My Boosey and Hawkes editions of Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos do not have ISBNs but I was able to find them using the Library of Congress search here for adding a book, specifying author and title.
It's been my experience that many musical scores, particularly older musical scores, don't have ISBN numbers assigned unless they are published by a company that is primarily a book publisher, like Dover Books (in which case they're more or less marketed and sold as a "book" rather than as a "score"). I think most of us entering scores simply do an "add books" search on the most likely major libraries and, if nothing comes up, manually enter whatever information is printed on the score.
It's been my experience that many musical scores, particularly older musical scores, don't have ISBN numbers assigned unless they are published by a company that is primarily a book publisher, like Dover Books (in which case they're more or less marketed and sold as a "book" rather than as a "score"). I think most of us entering scores simply do an "add books" search on the most likely major libraries and, if nothing comes up, manually enter whatever information is printed on the score.
