source file: m1526.txt Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:11:23 -0400 Subject: reply to Alves, #1525 From: Rick Sanford <76122.2237@compuserve.com> HI Bill: When you write about Partch: >> Why doesn't someone publish facsimilies of his scores, >>at least, with a guide to reading them, so that we can >>just peruse his scores in libraries like every >>other major composer of this century? My intial questions are: 1) who owns the rights to Partch works? and, of course, 2) when's the last time you tried to get your hands on the work of a 'major composer', like Ligeti San Fran Polyphony, in a "library", and been told it has been back-ordered for the past ten years! Bill