Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2009/02

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Derivative Works
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:11:56 -0500

Yes. The people who pay for the typesetting, the paper, the printing,
the advertising, the distribution, and actually pay the composer too...

Gary
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Martin Baxter wrote:
> I seem to recall that when an unofficial arrangement was made for Brass
> Band of Elgar's first symphony the critic of The Times, who complained
> about this' was rebuked by Elgar in their columns. He said that he would
> rather his music was heard in arrangement than not at all.
> It would seem that the objectors are those who make their living "on the
> backs" of the actual composers,
> Martin
>
> On 4 Feb 2009, at 00:22, Adam Michlin wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathon,
>>
>> I'm no lawyer, but as a composer I'd have a real problem if someone
>> took my (very) fictional "Concerto for Sousaphone and Clarinet
>> Ensemble" and performed it as as my "Concerto for Contrabass Clarinet
>> and Clarinet Ensemble" without my permission. Much more so than if an
>> articulation was changed.
>>
>> -Adam
>> http://www.michlinmusic.com
>>
>> Jonathan Cohler wrote:
>>> Not as far as the law is concerned.
>>>
>>> Changing an articulation is a bigger deal in my opinion.
>>>
>>> At 6:08 PM -0500 2/3/09, Adam Michlin wrote:
>>>> On the same list that will debate to the end of time (and beyond)
>>>> whether playing a C clarinet part on Bb clarinet changes the
>>>> fundamental character of the work (not to mention potentially
>>>> causing one to grow prematurely old and whither away, of course),
>>>> your argument is that playing a flute sonata on the clarinet does not?
>>>>
>>>
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