On Sep 8, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Ken Durling wrote:
Just curious, although I've heard the work [Sinfonia]. I'm not intimately familiar with it, and I'm only aware of the Mahler 2 Scherzo in there. What else is there? And is/was the Mahler for sure under copyright?
The Mahler just serves as the backbone for a movement that consists almost entirely of quotations from Debussy, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Berg, Schoenberg... Many of these were most definitely under copyright at the time (1968) and some still are. What is particularly striking is that some of these composers and their estates were and are very, very vigilant of their copyrights and would never have allowed an unattributed use if it were within their power to enforce it.
I know that in the graphic arts collaging has been protected in Europe following the precedent of a nearly century-old case in which a newspaper unsuccessfully sued Bracque (I think it was) for using a fragment of their paper in a cubist painting.
But recent developments in music, esp. in the US, seem to go counter to that, and I'm very puzzled.
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