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I'd really love to see the scores to 'Bob In Dacron/Sad Jane' or 'Pedro's Dowry'... they are some of my favorite Zappa pieces. Ooh, ooh! Also G-Spot, Get Whitey, Outrage at Valdez...basically all of them.<br><br>I'd just really love to see a student edition type deal or something like that. I'd love to study his stuff.<br><br>I heard something like this used to be sold at Barfko. What was it like? How much did it cost? WILL IT BE COMING BACK!?!?!?!?!

good joke  :)<br>hope one day zappa music become property of the humanity<br>and we can have his manuscripts in any public library all around the world<br>for free...

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i'm totally spiritual

So the answer is 'no', then?

Sometimes I sit & wonder what "Amnerika" of CP3, written down in sheet music, could POSSIBLY look like.  I mean, /seriously./

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I bought the score of Be Bop Tango years back. Actually it wasn't a score at all. It was a reduction, Melody on one line, accompaniment on two (like a piano with solo instrument.) It was over-priced and of poor quality, but hey, there was the melody for Be Bop Tango, all written out! Actually very cool, and I did learn to play in on the trumpet.

Zappa's orchestral scores are mostly rental material. But if you go to the MM link on this site, you'll find the e-mail address of Munchkin Music (munchkinmusic@zappa.com). You could write your question to them.

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Try the following web site. This guy has a few arrangements of Zappa for percussion ensembles. Ask him if he'll give you a discounted price for the conductor's score without parts. I got one for Strictly Genteel this way. They've got a particular slant on percussion but the content is all there. He has an mp3 of a performance of his Regyptian Strut arrangement which gives you an idea of the quality of his arrangements.

Mike Myers Percussion Ensembles

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

I totally agree.
I understand that this piece involved 220 tracks. Could you imagine such a thing?
I always found this piece to be one of such emotion from Frank.
It has to be one of my favorite, if not my favorite, of all of Frank's work.
It's such an amazingly densely emotional piece of sculptered air that I have ever heard.

My perception was one of despair.

...

No One, where do you live?
not a rhetorical question . . .

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Catalog # Title & Item Price
--------- ------------ -----
MX 001 Alien Orifice: Piano $9.00
MG 001 Guitar $7.00
MP 001 Vibes $7.00
MB 001 Bass $7.00
MBb001 Bb Instruments $7.00
MD 001 Drum Set $9.00

MK 014 BeBop Tango: Piano/Melody $9.00
MBb014 Bb Inst/Melody $7.00
(TSax & Clarinet) $7.00

MP 002 Black Page #1: Lead Sheet $7.00
MD 002 Drum Set $7.00

MP 002 Black Page #2: Percussion $7.00
MK 002 Keyboard $9.00
MB 002 Bass $7.00
MBb002 Bb Instruments $7.00
(Clarinet & TSax)

MS 004 Bob in Dacron/Sad Jane: Full Orchestral Score $138.00
MRPP04 Two Piano Reduction $60.00
Price for 2 of above $104.00
MD 004 Drum Set $14.00

MS 003 Bogus Pomp: Full Orchestral Score $168.00
MD 003 Drum Set $12.00

ML 015 The Dangerous Kitchen: Lead Sheet $9.00

MW 005 Dog Breath Variations: Wind Ensemble $86.00
MD 005 Drum Set $9.00

MK 006 Drowning Witch Interlude: Keyboard 1 $9.00
MKK006 Keyboard 2 $9.00
MP 006 Percussion $7.00
MB 006 Bass $7.00
MGS006 Guitar Solo $7.00
MG 006 Guitar 1 $7.00
MGG006 Guitar 2 $7.00
MD 006 Drum Set $8.00

MSC016 Dupree's Paradise: Chamber Ensemble Score $92.00

MS 007 Envelopes: Full Orchestra Score $63.00
MSW007 Wind Ensemble Score $63.00
MD 007 Drum Set $7.00

ML 017 Freak Out Collection: Lead Sheets $25.00 (was $20)

MS 018 It Can't Happen Here: Transcription Score $18.00
(For 5 Vocalists, Piano & Drum Set)

ML 019 Jazz Discharge Party Hats: Lead Sheet $14.00

MS 008 Mo `n' Herb's Vacation: Full Orchestra Score $184.00
MC 008 Clarinet 1 $21.00
MD 008 Drum Set $17.00

MS 020 Naval Aviation in Art: Chamber Ensemble Score $52.00

MS 009 Pedro's Dowry: Full Orchestra Score $92.00
MRPP09 Two Piano Reduction $31.00
MSS009 |Conductor Score $28.00
|(Can be used as study score)
MSC009 Chamber Orchestra Score $92.00
MD 009 Drum Set $9.00

MS 010 Penis Dimensions/I'm Stealing the Room:
Full Orchestra Score $200.00
MRP101 1 Piano Reduction $25.00
MD 010 Drum Set $12.00

MSC021 Perfect Stranger: Chamber Ensemble Score $104.00

MSS022 Revised Music for Low Budget Orchestra:
(Can be used as study score)
Conductor Score $28.00 (was $21)

MSS011 Sinister Footwear: Full Orchestral Score $500.00
MRP011 1 Piano Reduction $70.00
MRPP11 2 Piano Reduction $70.00
Price for 2 of above $115.00
MD 011 Drum Set $18.00

MS 012 Strictly Genteel: Full Orchestral Score $100.00
MD 012 Drum Set $9.00

Various Short Music:
M6 023 Jumbo Go Away Interlude:
Bass & Keyboard (1 Part) $7.00
M8 024 Fembot Wet T-Shirt Contest: Keyboard $7.00
M7 025 #7: Keyboard $7.00
M8 026 #8: Keyboard $7.00
M9 027 #9: Keyboard $7.00
M9 028 #9: Harp $7.00

MD 013 What's the Name of Your Group?: Drum Set $7.00

MQ 006 Wind Quintets: #6 Score $18.00
MQ5006 Parts $18.00
Set of Score & Parts $29.00

MQ 001 Wind Quintet: Score $18.00
MQ5001 Parts $18.00
Set of Score & Parts $29.00

* `2 Part Reductions' need 2 parts for performance

If you'd like to contact Barfko-Swill, you can write them at the following address:
Barfko-Swill
P.O. Box 5418
N. Hollywood, CA 91616-5418

Or phone them at: (818) 786-7546

GET WHITEY

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I wonder if Frank had to buy Varese's pieces? Hey, his family trust has plenty of money, just let people see it a play it....because we love it!

No sheet music or covers for you!

Perhaps I am the only one who finds it odd how protective all this seems. I guess FZ really was a conservative (har har)

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I totally agree !

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I ordered these back in '90 or '91...still have TDK and JDPH, but lost TBP somewhere along the way

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Mr. Punknaynowned...What is the relevence to this question please...

You can understand how I live if you go here:
http://www.soundclick.com/mikemilillo

good to see you on board again mike, i hope you're not causing any trouble though...we are a thoroughly moderated breed these days

good to bump into you once more my friend

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Craig! How goes it ma man?
A total moderated forum? Isn't that kind of paradoxical since this is a Zappa conscious based forum?

There goes the neighborhood!

Zappa went through hell to get these all copied out and then even played, shit, I'd want as much as I could get for it if I was him.

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What I don't understand is this?



That is nearly $1.25 a second.

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I just got back into using Cubase and was looking for Zappa midifiles

I've got heaps of 'em that I collected years ago...but they seemed to have disappeared off the net...there's not much around..

Did the ZFT get rid of a lot from the net?

I just polished up a version of 'Twenty Small Cigars' with new samples...
it came up great...it's the version with a bit of Calvin inserted into it

I sure would like a midifile of 'Outrage at Valdez' though....heh

Peace, mutronboy

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"Wanna buy some pencils?...."

I've wondered the same thing lately.

Also, I've got to say the prices of some of these Barko-Swill scores are bordering on ridiculous. I understand that Zappa probably paid a lot of money to get them copied and such, but seeing as how easy it is to copy paper now-a-days, why such a price??

I don't mean to complain, I've been known to pay up to $60 AUS for import CD's such as Joe's Garage, and the only reason I've finally forked the money out was because I knew it would most likely go into funding the next ZFT CD release. It's just that I would honestly want to buy every single one of these scores if they weren't so expensive.

I also believe if Frank Zappa's music was just a bit more available to the public, that it would work in the favour of the ZFT by possibly getting his name out there and getting him some of the recognition he deserves for this awesome music. Which eventually means... more Zappa for US!

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Boston Public Library allegedly has some Zappa manuscripts.

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Dupree's Paradise was played in Oslo in October, and I got a copy of the sheet that shows how the orchestra will sit when they are playing this piece ^^,
Frank thought of everything, you know...

Do you mean the seating arrangement or "back straight, chin up"?