Klarinet Archive - Posting 000585.txt from 1995/09

From: jay eric niepoetter <niep@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Music software
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 01:50:16 -0400

I agree with Steven. I too have clarinet "stuff" on MIDI files. We
should all swap them around. Anything that is public domain is perfectly
legal. Better yet... Does anyone have Finale Mus. or ETF. files to swap?

On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Steven Popper wrote:

> 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
>