Klarinet Archive - Posting 000112.txt from 2000/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Copyrights
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 04:28:20 -0400

Dear Don g.,
I don't think you're right about Rusalka - the legend of the water-sprite
who falls in love with and/or seduces a mortal is pretty old and also
turns up in operas by Hoffmann, Tchaikovsky --- and plenty of others.
Andersen's version is from a seafaring nation; in general, these sprites
are river spirits.
Yours,
Roger S.

On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 DGross1226@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:42:36 EDT
> From: DGross1226@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Re: Copyrights
>
> In a message dated 00-06-03 16:16:08 EDT, Bill Wright wrote:
>
> << Thinking about copyrights is entirely new to me. When I go to a sheet
> music store and purchase a songbook that includes the theme to Disney's
> "Mermaid" film, what am I entitled to do with this music?>>
>
> Listen to a recording of Dvorak's aria, "Song to the Moon," from his 1901
> opera "Rusalka" to discover that movie soundtrack themes -- and main story
> lines -- are frequently "borrowed." Of course it was Hans Christian Andersen
> who inspired them both.
>
> Don Gross
> La Canada, California
>
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