Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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dada_lope
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Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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I have made minor corrections to the PDFs of the Beethoven 9th score by Marmol and Casaus found here:
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Symp ... ethoven%29
I wish to offer these as an improved version of their files, claiming no copyright or credit. I think it should not look like a separate new score, and should be easily found from their page. What's the best way to do that?
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Re: Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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In my opinion, if you have made just obvious corrections (wrong notes, lengths, typos in text etc.) then we should replace their files with yours and add a note at the "Edition notes" section in the line: "revised on Dec 2015 by dada_lope, such and such things corrected."

On the other hand, if you have made substantial editorial changes to their edition, then you should submit yours as a new edition, specifying at the "Edition notes" section that it was "based on CPDL# 99999 with such and such changes."

Regards,
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dada_lope
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Re: Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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The first case is appropriate. Their scores mention incorrect measure numbers, which is primarily what I fixed. I spread the measure numbers to each staff of each page, and added rehearsal letters based on an old score (Ed. Reinecke, pub. Breitkopf, 1895, http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/51456). I recall editing the text underlay in one or two places. I made no changes that rise above the level of typesetting.
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Re: Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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I would suggest contacting the original editor before changing the linked file, or else adding a "based on" edition. I posted a reformatting under the original editor's name at http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/St_M ... _di_Lasso) but this was a case where nothing but layout was changed. Looking now, I'm no longer convinced the A4 paper size label on the original is correct!
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Re: Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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I just uploaded 4 files and submitted an Add Works form for it. Apparently the CPDL number of that submission is 37915. I have saved the response data.

I may have done it wrong, because I don't see any sign that the first 3 files were included in the submission. I can provide the upload links for those files if needed. Otherwise I think the Add Work submission is moot, because I don't feel any ownership of these files. I leave it to the CPDL admins to judge whether this counts as a new submission or a trivial (but useful) correction of someone else's earlier submission. My opinion is the latter.

I think I was required to select a copyright option, but I disavow any copyright of my own to these files, and defer to the creators of the original files, Marmol and Casaus. http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Sym ... ethoven%29
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Re: Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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Hi. Could you please upload your corrections as a single file? I have merged Paco Marmol and Manolo Casaus edition into a single file, too, because there was no strong reason to keep it separated into 5 PDFs. Thank you!
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Re: Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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Please see my new submission CPDL # 37923 and the file http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/6/69/Be ... _piano.pdf
Sorry I didn't read your PM until after the new submission.
This is a single PDF file containing all 5 of the original files, with the measure numbers corrected and rehearsal letters added. (I did only the measure numbers in the first file.)
Thanks for your help.
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Re: Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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The link for this new revision seems to be broken. Could you re-post? And do you by chance have an edition showing the choir parts only (without the accompaniment/reduction)? thanks! Paul Ayres
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Re: Submitting minor rev of someone else's score

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Previous file has been removed in 2016 but a corresponding new one (File:Beethoven_9th_vocal_piano3.pdf) uploaded. See the work page:
http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Symp ... Beethoven)
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