Disposing of miniature scores

[gradus]

The decorator is coming and we're having a tidy and getting rid of stuff. Is anyone here interested in acquiring some miniature scores? No charge and either collect or pay for postage. They're orchestral music, mainstream on the whole:
Bax sym 3
Beethoven overtures, Prometheus, Namensfeier, Egmont, Leonora3, sym 3, 8, 9
Borodin sym 1
Brahms pf conc 2
Dohnanyi Vars on a Nursery Theme
Elgar Cockaigne, Enigma vars
Haydn syms 15, 92
Mozart sym 40, 41, pf conc K414, vln conc K216
Prokoviev pf conc 3
Schubert syms,1, 2, 3, 4
Schumann sym 2, piano conc
Shostakovich sym 9
Sibelius Tapiola
Strauss Tod und Verklarung and Sym Domestica
Wagner Meistersinger ov.

Please PM me if all or any take your fancy.

[french frank]

Would willingly take all the Mozart and Schubert scores. Cannot collect, but of course would refund p&p.

[kernelbogey]

As you may know, Oxfam bookshops will welcome them.

[smittims]

Henry Bohn Books in Liverpool have quite a stock of minature and study scores, many of which they got from Liverpool city library. It was sad to see public libraries getting rid of scores. Stockport library in the 1960s had an excellent collection. Last time I went , no sign of them.

I'm no help; I have a shelf or two of scores, but haven't 'followed' one for years. I don't know why.

[Roslynmuse]

Henry Bohn Books in Liverpool have quite a stock of minature and study scores, many of which they got from Liverpool city library. It was sad to see public libraries getting rid of scores. Stockport library in the 1960s had an excellent collection. Last time I went , no sign of them.

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I haven't visited Henry Bohn Books, but ordered some scores from Austin Sherlaw-Johnson some years ago and was quite shocked to recognize them as scores I had myself borrowed from Liverpool Library in my youth. I had a grim experience on a return visit to the Wirral, where I grew up, and popped into the local library that had been such a rich source of musical material - scores, LPs, cassettes, books - to find the bespoke room that was in the 70s and 80s packed with many treasures had been closed and the music library was now just three shelves. I asked one of the librarians what had happened to all the scores - there was much new stock being bought in 40 years ago, often on request too - and received a very unhelpful and distinctly unlibrarian-like reply. ("Everything is available online these days" was the more acceptable part of it.)

When I moved to Stockport I was still using the Henry Watson library in Manchester and have never registered with Stockport library.

[Pulcinella]

I'm wondering about approaching University of York Music Department/Library to see if they might be interested in mine when I snuff it.

Where will Cardiff's collection go if they close the department there?

[Roslynmuse]

Where will Cardiff's collection go if they close the department there?

if there is still a music department in Bangor it may go there; although the news from North Wales last week was not good.
I wonder what happened to Aberystwyth's music library when their department closed?

[Suffolkcoastal]

I would will willingly take the Namensfeir, Prokofiev & Haydn Sym 15. My flat has turned into a music library these days as I've about 1,400 miniature/study/full/vocal/chamber scores to date, much to my partner's annoyance.

[gradus]

I would will willingly take the Namensfeir, Prokofiev & Haydn Sym 15. My flat has turned into a music library these days as I've about 1,400 miniature/study/full/vocal/chamber scores to date, much to my partner's annoyance.

No problem please PM me with your address.