Where to find Original Orchestral Scores?

[O-Start]

Hi! Im no longer a student since years now, but I miss the commodities of full music libraries offering all sorts of educational material.

I would seriously like to know where to find ORCHESTRAL scores of top-notch movies and not just the simple piano reductions which are totally irrelevant for me.

Are there any good websites, online music shops or anything else offering a good selection? I mean where do you go if you want to have a look (for example) at the full original Jurassic Park score? I have found places with the seriously famous soundtracks, but they only had a little bunch.

Any help here is greatly appreciated!

[A.Leung]

Lots of really good scores at www.alexuniv.com and truespec.com

For some odd reason Peters site seems to be having issues today...

[Dominic]

The simple answer is: besides the John Williams signature editions (which are really concert suites), you can't buy an orchestral score to a whole film (as in every single cue written out as the conductor would have seen it).

O-Start, I have sent you a private message regarding this.

Jurassic Park was mentioned - the full score DOES exist, but not legally. I won't post it here, but I will post a small image of a fragment from one of the pages to show that it can be incredibly useful for learning successful voicings and to give you an impression of the handwriting.

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/8536/jurassicparkscorepagepu8.th.jpg (http://img413.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jurassicparkscorepagepu8.jpg)
(note the trumpet theme at the 4/4 bar!)

Obviously it wouldn't be profitable for these scores to be commercially printed (how many would buy them?) so it's a real shame that students of music cannot have access to the sheet music of these great film scores, written only 15 years ago, yet music from hundreds of years ago can be found in any Eulenberg collection.

[O-Start]

Thanks for this Allan, much appreciate it!

Thanks dominic, I replied to your personal message.

[Shahin]

Me too! I spent a bit of time when I was at UC Santa Barbara requesting some John Williams scores from UCLA (I love how any UC can request a book on loan from another UC). I've photocopied them and I'm going to analyse them soon, but I've been looking for somewhere I can find the scores for films so that I can follow along. I couldn't see much at those two websites you suggested. Doh.

SK