> The recent post about William Marshall made me wonder where I can buy > books of his compositions. > The closer to the original the better; best of all are copies of originals.
I've started work on a CD-ROM edition which I expect to mostly replace the Fiddlecase one. What I was intending to do is transcribe the full score for the earlier collections but not the posthumous one (since it doesn't seem likely Marshall had any hand in the accompaniments for that book, and they're much more complicated than the early ones). There are a couple of small Marshall sheets or collections the Fiddlecase compilation left out. I'll include the ones I know of. There are also a few Marshall tunes in other people's collections, printed before Marshall himself published them. I might include these too, but the dating makes them a vague target. > [Fiddlecase Books] claim a copyright on the collection and I'm not sure > if it's legit to reproduce it (considering it's simply a reproduction > of the originals which are in public domain, plus a 1 page introduction, > I don't see how their copyright is valid, but what do I know?). They could do that legitimately if they had a unique copy. Since none of Marshall's collections is that rare, they're bluffing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. ----> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "scots-l" at this site, please <---- Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
