Klarinet Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 2010/09

From: retiredprof55 <retiredprof55@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Pros and Cons of Free Sheet Music
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:28:52 -0400

I am sharing an excerpt from my monthly newsletter with this group with the=
hope of stimulating some dialogue.
=

Have you ever walked into a music store and come across a bin of free music=
? Perhaps, but more often, it might be a bin of music at half price because=
the music has not sold well. What about finding everything in the sheet mu=
sic department for free? I bet your answer to this question is no. However,=
I would suggest that the internet has radically changed our expectations r=
egarding sheet music.

With the advent of technologies like Sibelius=92 Scorch Player and PDF file=
s where downloading and self printing of sheet music is as easy as clicking=
your mouse, have we lost sight of what actually goes into the creation of =
music? Is the availability of free music beneficial or detrimental to the m=
usic world?
=

To read more on this subject, please go to my newsletter at http://www.coop=
press.net/page9/page15/page50/page50.html
=

Dr. Sy Brandon, composer and arranger
Professor Emeritus of Music
Millersville University of Pennsylvania

retiredprof55@-----.com
Website http://cooppress.net

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