I did not see any scores by Artaria at U.N.C, which is ashame given the incredible things that press has done.
I think Artaria is publishing a complete Vanhal symphony cycle? Amazing that up to this point, no "big publisher" even considered such a project.
Actually when I think about it, this is an instance where a desktop publisher has had an major impact.
On 2/4/06, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4 Feb 2006 at 13:24, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
> When I was recently at the
> University of North Carolina's music library, I didn't notice any
> scores in the stacks from what I would call "desktop" publishers. I'm
> not sure if that's because the staff is unware these sources exist, or
> it's the lack of distribution for such small operations. Just an
> observation I had at *that* library.
Did they have an Artaria Editions? I mean the modern Artaria, not the
Viennese one. That's basically a desktop publishing organization, and
they actually do quite nice work. My bet is that there are quite a
few others.
Also, a lot of the big publishers are getting much cheaper engraving
because of Score, Finale and Sibelius. I know for a fact that most of
the major publishers subcontract out their engraving and it's done
with the well-known software on mostly consumer-level PCs, not on
mainframes. So, in a sense, an awful lot of music is getting engraved
using the the new technology, and being engraved as piece-work,
rather like the 18th century, when engravers could be independent
operators (as in Paris) valued for their skills at producing
beautiful engravings.
The costs of starting your own publishing house are pretty minimal.
If you've already got the music engraved, all you have from there on
is the production costs. Then you decide whether you're going to
publish on demand or pre-print inventory.
I really think it isn't that much different from the composers who
are selling their own compositions on CDBaby.com or other such
sights, direct to consumers. It's not like producing a good MP3
doesn't take a whole lot of work, just as producing an engraved score
takes a lot of work. The reproduction of the MP3 once engineered and
created is really easy, but so is the reproduction of a computer-
engraved edition once the engraving is done. The only difference is
that the latter can't be distributed easily over the wire. But that's
just a difference between a digital and a non-digital medium. When we
someday have electronic music stands, music distribution, too, will
be fully electronic. But as long as we use paper scores to play from,
music distribution will always have more steps and be less easy than
MP3 distribution.
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