I was wondering if anyone knows where you could buy the flute part only for concert band arrangements? I would love to collect the pieces I played in high school and college. Amy

they can be occasionally found on Ebay, if you get lucky, otherwise, the publishers may or may not sell them

You could try contacting a place like Flute World, maybe they might now. I think it will be pretty hard to just get one part out of the score though with out having to buy the whole thing.

What are some of the pieces you are looking for. I have a huge binder full of band music from throughout the years of being in community bands. I may be able to help.

Kara, that would be awesome if you could look and see if you have any of the pieces I'm looking for. I would love to have some of the older pieces from my high school and college days (1985-1995). Off the top of my head, here are a few I'm looking for:

Holst Suites
Drum Major's Daughter
Divine Comedy (any of the movements)
Prolouge and Dance
Candide Overture
Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserables
Incantation and Dance
Russian Christmas
Varations On A Korean Folk Song
West Side Story
Tin Pan Alley

I do have a ton of concert band flute parts myself so if anyone else is looking for something why not post it? I think it would be great to play through these again... so many great memories!

I have played several of those, but wouldn't you know it, I don't have any copies of them. I am really sorry

you can order band parts from www.jwpepper.com hope this helps

Most of this stuff is copyrighted, so copying and sharing isn't legal. Bummer, lots of these are great pieces!

Yes, that is true. Lucky for me most of mine are originals. I wouldn't mail them to anyone if they were copies.

I talked to my brother in law who works at a music store. He said the easiest way for me to get ahold of these songs would be to contact the publisher and buy it directly from them. I have contacted Boosey and Hawkes regarding the Holst Suites and I'll see how that goes before I try to get any others. (BTW, I was not asking anyone to illegally photocopy parts I understand copyright laws. I just wanted to know if anyone knew where I could purchase them legally.)

Kave you considered asking a local band library for the music? This may include the place where the director of your band keeps their music or a univ. music library.

Under copyright law, if you have copied the flute music from the parts to a band piece for educational purposes, it is probably not a violation of the copyright law.
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/mla/Guidelines/Other%20Guidelines/Educational%20Use%20of%20Music.aspx
"For academic purposes other than performance, single or multiple copies of excerpts of works may be made, provided that the excerpts do not comprise a part of the whole which would constitute a performable unit such as a section, movement or aria, but in no case more than 10 percent of the whole work. The number of copies shall not exceed one copy per pupil"

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as another comment. I think that it is a good idea to have these parts to as many pieces as possible but one should remember that certain pieces, particularly in the case of music that is rather popular can have more than one arrangement of the material. I have found this to be true in the case of musical medleys, big band medleys, nationalistic or armed forces medleys and certain marches. As an example, The Star Spangled Banner is out there in at least three different versions. I'm saying this because it can be rather disconcerting to practice a piece for weeks that you may assume is going to be programmed only to discover that the notes placed in front of you at the concert are totally different.

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one more comment about this copyright law issue here.
Currently, there is a thread where someone is asking for some music from a certain movie. One could say that this request is for "Educational purposes BUT in fact, they aRrre asking to violate copyright law in this instance because of this clause: "......provided that the excerpts do not comprise a part of the whole which would constitute a performable unit such as a section, movement or aria, but in no case more than 10 percent of the whole work." -particularly that 10% part....

Bilbo, thanks for the clairfication on the copyright issue. I am the librarian for our community band and we never hand out the originals. Period. With the coming and going of members we would have an incomplete set in less than one season. I have always been told that you can use photocopies, but in the event that someone would show up to a performance to check on possible copyright violations (rare) you must be able to produce the full original score and instrumental parts.

Does that sound right to you? I know that means we reproduce more than 10% of the originals so it probably was old information or inaccurate information that one of my directors gave me at some point.

Well I think that your way of doing things sounds the best. I also think that you are in a great position to advance your skills with these parts.

I'm no expert and I'm certainly not the copyright police but I would think that if you visited your band's library with a scanner and a laptop, you cold do some "educational" copying.
Remember that these laws are to protect the composer and the publisher and in this case, if you can't purchase the individual parts separately, you may be fairly safe in making a few copies of the flute parts to a few arrangements.