Listsibs: I had, at one point, planned to publish scores on the Net4music site, but for about the past six months, or so, there has been a message that the self-publishing feature of the site had been postponed. I've not been by the site for a while, but when I just visited it, I found that Net4Music's publishing activities have been acquired by the site set up by Music Sales and Hal Leonard, "Sheet Music Direct". Details are in a press release on Coda's web site (<http://www.makemusic.com/uk_30_09_2002_deepening_alliance.html>)
I thought I remembered that there had been some sort of "alliance" between Hal Leonard and Sibelius, and in running a "Google (R)" search, I found that my memory was, at least in this instance, correct. I can't help but wonder if this maybe can be interpreted as a judgment in the ongoing Coda / Sibelius affray. Since Tab work accounts for a substantial part of the publishing efforts (on the pop side, anyway) of Hal Leonard, one wonders whether this agreement influenced the fact that in the most recent release of Finale, there seemed to be a rather larger amount of improvements to the TAB capabilities than has previously been the case. On another level, I am a bit disappointed about the announcement. One feature that Net4Music had was the capability of self publishing, and that seems to have gone by the wayside. There are a couple of "free music" distributions channels available: the Choral Public Domain Library is one <www.cpdl.org>, and there is a music side to the Project Gutenberg website (<www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/music/>, but are there any other sites permitting self publishing of music--a "composer's co-op", as it were? ns _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
