Edgar's comments on publishing (Frompovich, A Talk with Edgar Meyer, 1997): "Eventually I'll be doing the piano and bass music. I'm not sure at what point I would publish the chamber music and concertos. Part of it is my temperament; I have a very, very hard hard time with performances with those pieces even when I am there and can guide every note. The idea of them going on when I'm not there guiding every note; it is very hard to imagine that they would come out in a way that even resembles (doesn't say what), A large percentage of the material I write today is involved with very specific ways of playing the instrument and sounds that I can hear in my head but I can't totally notate. But there are a lot of things in between the notes and not just nuances or pitch related things or slides. It is a whole sense of phrasing and timing that is important to these pieces. That phrasing and timing is very hard to get right. Even in performances when I'm there it is very hard to get it all played all that right. I'm not sure that this music lends itself to being played widely. I think it is very idomatic for the way I do things. I know it's a little strange but to me it's almost like a diary; it's what I've worked on and what I've done. It wasn't ever envisioned as something that would be played by a lot of people."
However: The Autumn 2001 Double Bassist Autumn has sheet music for the first movement of Edgar's Concert Duo for Violin and Double bass.
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