Tag: copyright

IMSLP under attack on bogus legal grounds

Byartsyhonker April 21, 2011 0 Comments
I'm a big fan of the International Music Score Library Project, also known as the Petrucci Music Library.It seems the Music Publishers Association, a UK organisation with industry links to EMI, PRS and many of the other usual suspects, is being quite problematic for them.A short extract from their forums:The MPA, without notifying us, sent to our domain registrar GoDaddy a bogus DMCA takedown...

Words, words!

Byartsyhonker April 19, 2011 3 Comments
When I write music, I struggle with the words. As a child I was a decent poet, I'm told, but at some point I lost the habit of writing poetry in a notebook in spare moments. I think it may have been around the time I took up playing the horn and got a paper route and somehow seemed to always be out at one rehearsal or another! These days, most of the words I write are typed directly onto a screen...

Starts with P and that rhymes with T

Byartsyhonker March 6, 2011 5 Comments
Lent approaches fast and, at St Andrew's at least, this will be a time of penitence, prayer, purple vestments and psalmody.The latter is my concern. During Advent we tried adapting the Common Worship psalter to a simple plainchant melody from Palmer's "Manual of Plainsong". It worked well for the choir, who could rehearse, but the congregation struggled to join in. Even when using the same...

Two compositions

Byartsyhonker March 21, 2010 0 Comments
At some stage I will probably stop thinking of my life in terms of "since I finished at Trinity", but for now it's still such a change that I'm quite regularly struck by how different life is. One of the joys of having more control over my time is that I have been doing more composing. I have half a dozen things unfinished at the moment, but I've also written three pieces since December. One of...

Mozart KV 370b+371

Byartsyhonker April 29, 2009 2 Comments
I'm learning some Mozart I've never learned before, for my end-of-year exam. What's this, you say? How can a horn player get this far and not have learned all the Mozart solo repertoire there is?Well, simply put, when I started learning the horn there were fewer known fragments of the work. Even now it can be difficult to get hold of. Some recordings I have seem to mis-label the first movement as...

London Alternative Copyright Choir

Byartsyhonker March 14, 2009 0 Comments
Traditional copyright exists in order to protect the rights of creators. The idea is that if they know their work will be protected and they can profit from it, there will be an incentive for them to create new works. This in turn means that consumers or audiences have a wide range of works to choose from. We all benefit from the cultural richness of a diverse range of artists creating a large...