A PDF file of parts is available at http://web.mit.edu/marching-band/www/misc/russian-anthem/kvzlyzug/russian-national-anthem.pdf .
This is sheet music of the Russian national anthem (hymn), arranged for wind band. This repository accomplishes several goals:
The original version is from http://flag.kremlin.ru/gimn/ . There is version that uselessly only has the title page translated into English at http://eng.flag.kremlin.ru/gimn/ (and weirdly a 4x increase in PDF file size). There is also a version arranged for symphony orchestra and choir on that page.
Curiously, there is a nearly identical version at http://www.gov.ru/main/symbols/gsrf4_2.html . It differs from the above in that it has been transposed into concert B-flat. Unfortunately, only the conductor's score is available (not parts), and only as rasterized PNG image files (packed into a RAR file).
Musically, the Russian national anthem is identical to the Soviet Union national anthem. New lyrics were written in 2000, but lyrics are of course irrelevant for a band arrangement.
This arrangement has many musical flourishes, e.g., trumpet fanfares and moving bass line. Incidentally, there is a simpler arrangement (1977 Soviet Union anthem) at http://www.hymn.ru/index-en.html . However, it suffers from the same problems of "everything is in Russian", and "wrong paper size".
The printed paper size in the generated PDF is 5.5 inches tall by 7.5 inches wide, which can be adjusted by modifying the Lilypond source. You may wish to select in your print settings "Auto rotate and center" to avoid rehearsal letters from becoming chopped off. You may need to trim the white margins but should not need to reduce (with a photocopier, as is common when reformatting for marching band flip folders). (Do not use "Page Scaling: Fit to Printable Area" in your print settings, or else the music will become expanded to your printer paper size.)
There is an MP3 recording at the original site. (Also see the English version of the original site.)
There is also a nice recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs that incorporates many of the musical flourishes in this arrangement.
We have modified the entire song to be in 4/4, combining pairs of measures in the 2/4 section at the beginning.
The start points of the first and third endings differ between the parts (especially trumpets 1 and 2 and trombones 1 and 2, and also snare drum). This is unorthodox in musical typesetting, but was done to avoid the complexity of typesetting multiple staves where the fanfare brass parts diverge.
The start point of the endings were moved one measure later. This was done to save space, aiding compressing the music to flip folder size. Almost every part (except snare drum and the fanfare brass parts mentioned earlier) has the first measure of the original first ending the same. The start point of the original first ending has been given rehearsal mark 4. (Incidentally, the location of the first ending is the same as the 1977 Soviet Union version mentioned above.)
The fermatas in the beginning and the end have been taken from the 1977 Soviet Union arrangement mentioned above. We also added some of the dynamic markings from that arrangement.
We added a piccolo part from the symphony orchestra arrangement.
We created a baritone saxophone part by duplicating the bassoon part.
We split the Cornet 1 part into 2 separate parts.
Transposing from C to B-flat made the Tuba part extremely low, so we added some alternative octave notes.
We incorporated some of the expressive markings from symphony orchestra arrangement. For example, the slurs over tenuto eighth notes were removed.
We cleaned up the parts, removing a few inconsistencies and probable errors. These changes are documented as comments in the Lilypond sources and revision commit comments.
We modified the rhythm to be more frequently dotted-eighths on beat 2 then straight eigths on beat 4. This consistency will hopefully make the song easier to learn and play and sound better for wind band. I suspect the original rhythms make sense if the music accompanies a choir which is singing words.
In order for rehearsal marks to nestle in between high notes, and therefore not force the systems to become spaced wider than necessary, we applied a hack of hidden (invisible) grace notes.
Only a half-hearted attempt was made to produce a conductor's score.
The purpose of the conductor's score was mostly to find errors (to be able to spot inconsistencies) as we transcribed the music into Lilypond. All parts have been transposed into approximately the same octave in concert C. Percussion is omitted.
The unorthodox typesetting technique of different start points of the various endings causes Lilypond to get confused at the end.
The hidden grace notes hack also causes Lilypond to get confused about where the rehearsal marks are, resulting in multiple clustered rehearsal marks.
For a nicer conductor's score (albeit in the wrong key, different time signature, and in Russian), see the original site http://flag.kremlin.ru/gimn/ as mentioned above. For a conductor's score in B-flat (albeit as PNG images), see http://www.gov.ru/main/symbols/gsrf4_2.html mentioned above.
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