Subject: Star-Spangled Banner - Godowsky Concert Transcription 
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 06:34:39 -0700 
From: John Laurence Poole<snip> 
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical 

For a limited time, I am offering this gem (for solo piano):

   The Star-Spangled Banner
    (John Stafford Smith)

   arranged by the legendary

      Leopold Godowsky

This arrangements is not as impossible as the usual
Godowsky fare; however, it remains impressive.
Play this fire-cracker on the 4th of July!

You  may download the music at the following URL
which should be one line:

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http://www.editionspoole.com/ed/Smith/StarSpangle_God/solo/index3.htm
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The score is 3 pages in the following formats:
    1) Djvu at 400 dpi *BEST* for viewing and printing (216 KB)
    2) Acrobat at 400 dpi for printing (4,811 KB)
    3) Acrobat at 72 dpi for screen viewing  (902KB)

I have limited bandwidth, so try to use the DjVu format for fast access,
otherwise, the Acrobat versions which are much larger will take several 
minutes to download, and if someone else is downloading it at the same 
time, it will take even longer.

These are very high quality editions and rival the printed version 
originally published in 1921.

Happy 4th of July and God bless the public domain of the USA!

John Laurence Poole
Editions Poole

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