Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2000/06

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Copyrights
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 06:22:06 -0400

Antoine,
Don`t get alarmed. From what you relate your "Barber" to be, I am now sure
that you have a work which would be classified as an <original work>,
world-wide. Mark Charette further establishes that, in his quote, <way out
of copyright, a fresh arr. would be all yours>.
Relax.
Tony W.
----- Original Message -----
From: Antoine T. Clark <clariguy@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Copyrights

> Ok, I am confused by all this. So if my arrangement for clarinet is in a
> different key with different articulations, cadenzas, embellishments,
using
> fragments of melodies to compose variations, and other such composition
> devices, does that not make my work a whole new work? I did refer to a
piano
> reduction and complete score of the opera. So does that mean that my
> arrangement is no good. I understand I can't copy an arrangement. My work
> has many variations where I did change the accompaniment part that you
would
> hear in the orchestra or piano reduction. I am clueless and really don't
> want to be doing something wrong. Can you help me better understand?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 4:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Copyrights
>
>
> > From: "Antoine T. Clark" <clariguy@-----.net>
> > > Well does anyone know the rules for arranging a work like what I have
> been
> > > doing, The Barber of Seville? I assume it is ok and that I have change
> > > things to make it an arrangement and a composition makes the new ideas
> all
> > > mine.
> >
> > The Barber of Seville is way out of copyright; a fresh arrangement would
> be
> > all yours.
> >
> > Mark Charette@-----.org

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