Klarinet Archive - Posting 000576.txt from 1995/09

From: Steven Popper <swpopper@-----.ORG>
Subj: Re: Music software
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 20:31:17 -0400

The last couple of responses to this thread have brought out an
interesting phenomenon: a number of the regular readers of Klarinet have
spent a fair amount of time using the computer to transcribe and arrange
pieces for use by clarinetists. I too, for example, have used my setup to
create music-minus-one MIDI files of the Crusell duets. I have also done
such things as take one of the Corelli trio sonatas and arrange it for
clarinet solo with string quartet to accompany. (Sounds wierd for a "trio"
but the sonatas were actually written for violin and figured bass so in
addition to the solo and bass lines you derive the keyboard part which I
then busted up for my virtual quartet.) I have other projects as well.

The point is this: does it not appear that we might all have a
richer assortment of *.MID files to fool with if we swapped with each
other? This is really a thought off the top of the head -- I have no idea
what the copyright law is on this although it strikes me that this should
not be an obstacle for several reasons. But the image of a number of us all
being forced to engage in the coolie labor required to enter notes for the
Crusell duos offends my sense of economy and efficiency.

Steven W. Popper
RAND Corporation