R. Strauss Ein Heldenleben full orchestral score?

[tbassist4]

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a website where I could get the full orchestral score of this piece for free. I'd rather copy the bass part out of the full score rather than buy the book for one excerpt. I found the Mozart 35 public domain score (that was pretty easy to find, haha), but I can't seem to find this one. Should I just bite the bullet and buy the book?

[anonymous12251111]

You're totally going to need the actual bass part, for your eyes sake and your own mental health. It's pretty necessary to own the Strauss-Zimmerman book if you're working on the piece, it also usually gives you a good translation of the German texts.

[Andrew Chilcote]

the book is what, $12?

it's not worth the effort of copying 50 some mins of music

[tbassist4]

Originally Posted by Calvin Marks

You're totally going to need the actual bass part, for your eyes sake and your own mental health. It's pretty necessary to own the Strauss-Zimmerman book if you're working on the piece, it also usually gives you a good translation of the German texts.

I don't read from the full score, hahaha, I said I copy the bass part from it into Finale.

Originally Posted by Andrew Chilcote

the book is what, $12?

it's not worth the effort of copying 50 some mins of music

It's a single excerpt I want from each book, not the whole thing. Both of those books would have set me back a combined $40 plus shipping for two excerpts. I only want about a minute and a half of the music from each, haha.

I don't know if I'll actually be working on the pieces yet, as this is an audition for a pretty high level music festival orchestra. I hope that I will, and I think I have the potential, but I just spent a lot of money on books, and I'd just like to hold off on these for just a little longer.

[salcott]

The Oscar Zimmerman books of complete bass parts with bowings and fingerings are invaluable for anyone seriously desiring to be an orchestral bassist.

[tbassist4]

Originally Posted by salcott

The Oscar Zimmerman books of complete bass parts with bowings and fingerings are invaluable for anyone seriously desiring to be an orchestral bassist.

I see your point. $40 it is. I suppose that's not too much considering I'll be using these for years and years, haha. Thank you.

[PaulCannon]

An alternate option would be to buy the bass part from a publishing company. This would be my preferred choice to the Zimmerman books, but would get too expensive if I tried to get everything that's in the Zimmerman set. But if you only want one or two pieces, it really would be cheapest to buy the part itself.

[G-force]

Originally Posted by tbassist4

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a website where I could get the full orchestral score of this piece for free. I'd rather copy the bass part out of the full score rather than buy the book for one excerpt. I found the Mozart 35 public domain score (that was pretty easy to find, haha), but I can't seem to find this one. Should I just bite the bullet and buy the book?

Yo, Why not try your local public library or university music dept.
I mean doesn't Boulder have a local symphony?

[shostkontrabass]

I would suggest the International Music Score Library Project (http://imslp.org) but it looks like the only version of Ein Heldenleben they have is for piano, four hands.

If you guys haven't seen this site before, check it out! It's a big compilation of public domain scores.

[tbassist4]

awesome! Thanks, I love sites like this. I plan on just buying the bass part, but this will help me in other ways too. I love to look over full scores while listening to pieces.

A similar site that I found is also really useful.

http://www.classical-scores.com/free/

[shostkontrabass]

Originally Posted by tbassist4

A similar site that I found is also really useful.

http://www.classical-scores.com/free/

I'm pretty sure IMSLP has cataloged everything on there already.