Klarinet Archive - Posting 000485.txt from 1998/12

From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Movie Music
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:49:00 -0500

At 09:05 AM 12/11/98 -0500, Laura wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know how I could get a copy of the written score from a
>movie? "The Pentagon Wars" music is wonderful,. . .

Hi Laura,

You're starting out all right in my mind, but if you come up against
some solid barrier, the next best thing is to browse the Web, find some
fully orchestrated MIDI files and import them into a notation program
which allows a printout.

I've noticed just in the last couple of months there has been a virtual
explosion of fully orchestrated MIDI files on the Web. In the past couple
of weeks I've downloaded several symphonies (Beethoven #5, Dvorak New World,
Mahler #4, two movements of Mendelssohn's Italian) and lots, lots of other
things. Start at Laura's MIDI Heaven and go from there. She has lots of
works for movies and the quality of the files is getting better and better.
I asked her by e-mail once if the Disney folks have yet been on her case
about all the Disney film MIDI files she has there (the Disney lawyers
have a well-deserved reputation in this area) and she said that so far
they have gone after people who put up .WAV, .MOV and the new compressed
format (MM3 is it?) full performance files but that they haven't yet started
to go after people with MIDI files.

Anyway, try to get what you need through conventional channels first --
it will be a lot less work in the long run, but if such an attempt comes to
nothing, go to the Web!

Oliver

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