Daahoud Salim: Cantos sobre la Tierra

Concerto For Two Pianos And Orchestra

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Status: finished January 2022 after one wrong note in 3rd mvt, violins II.

Full Score

Standard, for experienced conductors. Every part transposed. B4 paper.

Parts

Performing materials, in score order top to bottom. A4 paper.

Source code and issues

May the source be with you. All what is needed for re-creating the score in LilyPond 2.20.

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Change log of the source code

Known problems and other issues. It's a basic to-do list.

Bundle

All in one big ZIP file for your convenience.

License

Read this before performing or re-distributing the Concerto

My work as a copyist is freely available in an open format, and the LilyPond program itself is Free Software. As far as I'm concerned, you can download both the source code and the rendered PDFs, or generate these from the former, for your own personal use. Yet, the actual music content is a copyrighted work © 2019 by Daahoud Salim. All rights reserved. So please contact the author for anything other than personal use.

Commissioned by Orquesta de Extremadura with fundings from Fundación SGAE and Asociación Española de Orquestas Sinfónicas

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About this page

As an admirer of Daahoud Salim as a young pianist and composer, when he announced that OEX had comissioned him to make a concert, I offered myself to create a proper score on time for the premiere.

I wanted to push the LilyPond music typesetting system, and my own skills as a user of it, to its limits with both full-score and instrumental parts of this relatively big piece, which includes three movements for two piano soloists and a full orchestra, together with a lot of challenging notation needs. Technically speaking I wanted to create as many automated processes as possible for rendering and publishing the materials.

I had previously produced the playing materials for another work by Daahoud: his sextet for strings and piano "Poem. History of peoples", with three movements joined together, featuring a long cadenza for the solo violin and glissandi among some other notation effects. See the score here

This page is a way to share all my work on Salim's concerto using a single link, and this link is as simple as I could imagine: http://lilypond.es/concerto

The result will have the unavoidable problems, but the beautiful results LilyPond gives by default compensates the effort. By the way: many thanks to all the LilyPond developers team. This, and so many other scores by tons of people, show how capable the program is and how convenient the text-document approach is.

The work is privately-funded and to be honest I am not fully certain that I can legally share it this way. All I can say is that a) I have the permission from the composer, and b) be not publicly available, I wouldn't have done it. This typesetting work is sincerely aimed to be useful for the rehearsals and the very premiere. It is my biggest project until today and the one with the widest audience.

lilypond.es is a poorly maintained, unofficial blog about LilyPond in Spanish language.