On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:52:06 +0100, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
For the questions on fair use of the scans: do the scans add something to the article that you really just can't get any other way? With album and book covers, it's *the* cover for the album. Is a score regarded that way?
It's functionally equivalent to a short sound clip, without the additional burden of being one person's interpretation of the work. Or you might liken it to a photograph of an individual. It is a picture of the work described.
Does it add to the article in a unique and meaningful way? I'd argue very strongly yes. If you read music, the excerpt tells you an enormous amount about the work. The out-of-copyright ones, which would mainly apply to Victorian music hall performers, are very unlikely to be rejected from those articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_%28Durufl%C3%A9%29 in case I didn't link last time. Doesn't mean much if you don't read music, of course.
Guy (JzG)