Review: International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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Book Review| December 01 2019 Review: International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). Edward W. Guo, Project Founder; Project Petrucci LLC, Owner. URL: https://imslp.org Sophie A. Brady Sophie A. Brady SOPHIE A. BRADY is a PhD candidate in Musicology at Princeton University. Her scholarly interests include music and technology, traditional and popular African music, and avant-garde composition. Her dissertation examines recording technology, musique concrète, and decolonization in twentieth-century France and francophone Africa. She is the recipient of a Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting Student Travel Award (2019) and Princeton's Roy Dickinson Welch Graduate Fellowship in Music. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2019) 72 (3): 920–935. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.920 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sophie A. Brady; Review: International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2019; 72 (3): 920–935. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.920 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Six pièces faciles, op. 13 (published in 1925), is a set of solo guitar pieces by Antonio Alba (see Figure 1).1 I discovered this score thanks to the “random page” navigation feature on the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) home page. Alba was new to me. Through a quick Internet search, I learned that he was a Catalan guitarist, composer, and music teacher who lived in Chile from 1873 to 1940. He composed more than 400 pieces, 250 of which were printed by commercial publishers in Valparaíso, Barcelona, Madrid, and Paris.2 Works for guitar make up the bulk of Alba's output. I clicked on his IMSLP artist profile and saw twenty-two of his compositions available to download. For each work on IMSLP, I could download a scan of the first printed edition, a nonprofessionally engraved modern edition, and tablature. IMSLP is a digital archive of... You do not currently have access to this content.