This page contains information about Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s published musical scores that is not usually found in bibliographic citations. It is divided into two sections:

• Publication Data
• Reservations of Rights

The first table gives detailed publication data for the fourteen scores that Sorabji had engraved and printed between 1921 and 1931 thanks to the financial support of his father. It also lists the two that appeared later in his lifetime (1969, 1987) with his knowledge and approval.

The second table gives the exact wording of the various reservations of rights, with their position on the page. It also gives information on printing (actually engraving), errata sheet, and list of other compositions to be published. Also offered are the inscriptions added by the composer to prohibit unauthorized performances of some of his (then) unpublished works written between 1954 and 1964; these are marked MS:.

For more on Sorabji’s publishers and his attitude to copyright, see chapters 2 and 3 (pp. 12-26, 27-33) of Maria Rosaria Margiotta, “Sorabji: A History of the First Publishers and an Edition (Transcendental Study no. 99)” (thesis, Master of Philosophy, City University, London, 1999), 90 pp. (vol. 1), 66 pp. (vol. 2).

A bullet (•) indicates works that were also published in special numbered editions signed by the composer and printed on Whatman handmade paper and in a slightly different format: 12 copies for Sonata seconda and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra [no. 5] and 23 copies for Opus clavicembalisticum.

Curwen Edition numbers are given in brackets where they do not appear on the title page of the publication;; they are taken from an Alphabetical List of Publications dated August 1927 (Curwen Press material, XXVII, no. 337.3) used in table 2 of Margiotta’s thesis (p. 24). In the scores, some numbers have a period between the third and fourth digits.

K.S. numbers all appear at the bottom centre of the publications except for two, Sonata no. 1 for Piano (1919; 42 pp.) and Two Piano Pieces (1918, 1920; 20 pp.), which would have received nos. 2 and 3. These numbers are not identical with the KSS numbers used by the Sorabji Archive.

The inclusive page numbers given are those of the first and last pages of music, respectively.

The indication n/a means “not applicable” (instead of “not available”).

For works published up to 1931, prices are taken from the cover pages of the publications themselves (gn = guinea, d = pence, s = shilling).

The lists of “Other Compositions of Kaikhosru Sorabji” printed at the back of Trois fêtes galantes de Verlaine (publ. 1924) and Symphony [no. 1] for Organ (publ. 1925) indicate that the composer intended to publish the following five works, which remained in manuscript:

• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra [no.] III [no. 6] (1922; 144 pp.)
• Symphony [no. 1] for Piano, Large Orchestra, Chorus, and Organ (1921-22; 300 pp.)
• Opusculum for Orchestra (1923; 36 pp.)
• Cinque sonetti di Michelagniolo Buonarroti (1923; 40 pp.)
• Variazioni e fuga triplice sopra “Dies irae” per pianoforte (1923-26; 201 pp.)

Abbreviations
BP: back page (i.e., a page following the last page of music)
FP: first page of music
LP: last page of music
MS: manuscript
TP: title page

[fc]: full caps
[llc]: lower-left corner
[lrc]: lower-right corner
[ulc]: upper-left corner
[urc]: upper-right corner

Capitalization
The capitalization of the copyright-related warnings follows the sources, as do the final punctuations and the use of italics. Statements set in full caps (marked with [fc]) are printed here with sentence-style capitalization.