Instrument
Orchestra sheet music
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The single most expensive mistake in this part of the catalogue is buying a score when what you needed was a set of parts. They are different products at wildly different prices, and a listing that says "orchestra" may mean either.
The listing below covers full and study scores, parts and part sets, arrangements for school and amateur orchestra, and solo works with orchestral accompaniment.
Leoš Janáček - Lašské Tance
- Piano
- Orchestra
Danse Des Mirlitons (The Nutcracker Suite Op.71a) [Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich]
- Piano
- Orchestra
Elegy
- Orchestra
- Clarinet
Symphony No.4
- Orchestra
Livre Pour Orchestra
- Orchestra
Cello Concerto In A Minor Op.129 [Schumann, Robert]
- Orchestra
Cello Concerto No.1 (Saint Saens)
- Orchestra
Concerto In B Minor Op.104 [Dvorak, Antonin]
- Orchestra
Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique' [Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich]
- Orchestra
The Pirates Of Penzance
- Voice
- Orchestra
A Spirit In Mourning
- Orchestra
Aubade
- Orchestra
Le Grand Concert
- Orchestra
Moonbird
- Orchestra
Summa Ferri
- Orchestra
Symphony No.3
- Orchestra
Intrada
- Orchestra
Lullaby
- Orchestra
Fujarka (Fife)
- Orchestra
Hurra Polka
- Orchestra
Piosenka (Song)
- Orchestra
Taniec (Dance)
- Orchestra
Symphony No.3
- Orchestra
Novelette For Orchestra
- Orchestra
Chain 3
- Orchestra
Interlude
- Orchestra
Symphony No.4
- Orchestra
Triptyque Silesien
- Orchestra
Chat Moss
- Orchestra
Theme And Variations (Mavis In Las Vegas)
- Orchestra
The Turn Of The Tide
- Orchestra
Time And The Raven
- Orchestra
Jimmack The Postie
- Orchestra
Threnody On A Plainsong For Michael Vyner
- Orchestra
Sinfonietta Accademica
- Orchestra
Eternity's Sunrise
- Orchestra
Theophany
- Orchestra
Capricio Espagnol
- Orchestra
Dance Of The Buffoons
- Orchestra
Russian Easter Festival Overture
- Orchestra
Serenade In C Op.48
- Orchestra
Suite No.4 'Mozartiana' Op.61
- Orchestra
Musicians Wrestle Everywhere,
- Orchestra
Sonnets To Orpheus
- Orchestra
The Belles Of St.Trinians
- Orchestra
The Bridge Over The River Kwai
- Orchestra
Toy Symphony
- Orchestra
The Piano Concerto
- Piano
- Orchestra
Buying guide
What to know before you buy
Score, study score, parts, set
A full score shows every instrument on its own stave. One conductor needs one. A study score is the same content printed small — for reading, not conducting.
A part is one player's line. A set of parts is the whole orchestra's worth, and is what actually costs money: several hundred pounds is normal, and for material still in copyright it is often hire-only rather than for sale.
If a listing gives a price in single figures for a symphony, you are looking at a study score. If it runs to hundreds, it is a set. If it says "hire" or "rental", the publisher will not sell it to you at any price and the transaction goes through their hire library.
Transposing parts, and why the score looks wrong
Orchestral scores print transposing instruments at written pitch, not sounding pitch — clarinet in B♭ and A, horn in F, trumpet in B♭, cor anglais in F. A score therefore looks as though several instruments are in the wrong key, and they are not.
Some twentieth-century scores are printed at concert pitch throughout and say so on the first page. Both conventions are in use, and a conductor reading one as the other will hear something unexpected at the first rehearsal.
What is free
Everything written before roughly 1930 is out of copyright, and public-domain archives hold scans of the old collected editions — the whole standard repertoire, scores and parts, at no cost. Those scans are often the nineteenth-century performing editions with their own errors, and orchestral librarians will tell you a bad part costs more rehearsal time than a good edition costs money. For reading and study, they are excellent.
Common questions
- Does buying an orchestral score include the parts?
- No. A score is the conductor's copy. Parts are sold or hired separately as a set, and the set is usually the expensive item.
- What does "hire only" mean?
- The publisher rents the performance material rather than selling it, which is standard for works still in copyright. You cannot buy those parts at any price; you apply to the publisher's hire library.
- Why do the clarinet and horn look like they are in the wrong key?
- They are transposing instruments and scores print them at written pitch. A horn part in F sounds a fifth below what is written. Some modern scores print everything at concert pitch and state so on the first page.