just received a reply from the legal and copyright department of SCHOTT MUSIC GmbH that states the music in some "tempus est iocundum" videos on youtube - mine included - was composed by carl orff and is copyright protected. how they came to this conclusion eludes me. -!i do not read music - i play by ear. -!in some degree it's flattering that my warbling and wizardry on the oud should conform to a composer of orff's renown. as stated previously, i learned the tune from someone who learned it from the ex-director of our group ... who subsequently writes that he transcribed the music from the codex catalog buranus CB 179, using modern notation. i've subsequently learned that in the original manuscript, the tunes - as such - were indicated by neumes or "breaths" - with the melody being merely suggested. i don't know if neumes are present for the "tempus" folio but i understand that orff is believed to have composed the music for his "carmina burana" all by himself - without any reference (i would assume) to these original neumes. you've no-doubt played this piece a thousand times. i've not been able to hear any other transcription of the piece (binkley's in particular) but i wonder how different these versions can be? whether the melody i used is accidentally orff's or not is beside the point (imho) as the copyright will expire in 30-something years and as a 60-something optimist ... i WILL be there! more than anything else i think it's sad that SCHOTT has stooped to snooping on the amateurs of youtube for big league copyright infringement.
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