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 music department for free? I bet your answer to this question is no. However, I would suggest that the internet has radically changed our expectations regarding sheet music.
With the advent of technologies like Sibelius’ Scorch Player and PDF files 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 music world? To read more on this subject, please go to my newsletter at http://www.cooppress.net/page9/page15/page50/page50.html Dr. Sy Brandon, composer and arranger Professor Emeritus of Music Millersville University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Website http://cooppress.net _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
