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Author: whole note
Date: 2011-08-01 21:06
Last week I needed to transpose the variations from Schubert's Octet and found a great resource: http://quicktranspositions.com
You just send a PDF or a fax (or you can mail the music,) and you get the transposition back within 48 hours for only around 11.00 per page. I emailed a PDF and paid with Paypal and got the music back by email in a day. The typesetting was perfect—very clean and easy to read.
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Author: davyd
Date: 2011-08-02 12:27
What are the copyright issues surrounding transposition?
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Author: GeorgeL ★2017
Date: 2011-08-02 15:35
Copyright issues? I'll offer the random thought of a retired IP attorney who no longer is actively practicing law.
The transposition is a derivative work. If the original work is under copyright and the transposition is done without the copyright owner's permission, the transposition is a copyright infringement. The creator of the derivative work has no rights in the work.
In my limited experience (based on trying to recreate a lost music folder), music publishers readily grant permission to make copies of permanently out of print music. Following that logic, they might also grant permission for someone to make a transposition of their music (assuming you own a legitimate copy of the music) that will not be further copied and distributed. They probably would want a copy of the finished product, which definitely should show the copyright information.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-08-03 13:41
I seriously doubt that the vast majority of music that needs to be transposed is still under copyright. That would be music of the 18 and 19 century for the most part so one does not have to worry about it. Although I learned to transpose while in school, so the Schubert Octet is no problem for me, when we did the Alpine Symphony of Richard Strauss, early 20th century composer, several years ago the part I was playing, C clarinet and bass in Bb, I asked the library to get me a transposed part because it was 6-8 pages of C clarinet and much of it high in the lever lines above the staff. They sent it out to someone in another orchestra library where they either have copies already or they transpose it for them. The only problem with that was that so many of the rests were wrong but fortunately I checked the part against the original before our first rehearsal, good thing to, it would have been very embarrassing to be constantly lost at our first read through. ESP eddies clarinet.com
PS. advise, learn to transpose.
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