T. Scott Gilligan, the general counsel for MTNA, has written a great article on copyrights for the independent music teacher. Included in the article is a discussion of what is legal to post on youtube, making arrangements for your students, page turning copies, etc. I would encourage everyone to read this very informative article.
Here are a few highlights:
Isn’t any musical work composed […]
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I have had conversations with several of my composer friends about the direction of music publishing in terms of print or digital distribution of music. I know that not only are composers concerned about these things, but music publishers are as well.
My favorite inspirational newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, has a piece entitled Magazines Team Up to Tout the Power of Print […]
I love the Wall Street Journal as an unusual source of creative and entrepreneural inspiration. On Monday, March 1st, there was an article entitled, At 3M, Innovation Comes in Tweaks in which CEO George Buckley was interviewed about his company and their innovations and creative processes. Really the whole article is interesting and worth the read, but I love what he said in […]
Jennifer Linn, the manager of the Hal Leonard educational piano department, has written an informative letter to interested teachers concerning the newly acquired distribution rights of the Faber materials. In this letter, she explains a bit about how the Hal Leonard Student Piano Method will continue to function, the Hal Leonard distributorship will work, and how new release clubs will be structured. Her original letter was […]
Here is the press release I just received from FJH concerning the selling of the Faber catalogue.
On November 30, 2009, The FJH Music Company Inc. (“FJH”) announced the sale of the Piano Adventures® catalog and other publications written by Nancy and Randall Faber to a corporation controlled by Nancy and Randall Faber.
FJH is a premier publisher of educational print music products for piano, band, […]
Hal Leonard has posted an official press release regarding the acquisition of distribution rights of the Fabers entire catalogue. Most of these details I have already posted in this previous post, but here is one new comment by Hal Leonard president Larry Morton,
We have long respected the success of the Fabers and their outstanding piano method. We are delighted to […]
Well, the word is out amongst the piano teaching boards. 
Effective December 7th, Hal Leonard will be the official distributor of Nancy and Randall Faber’s Piano Adventures series. They will begin working with the Hal Leonard staff to produce new publications which will include many songs from Hal Leonard’s large catalogue of […]
This will be an ongoing series consisting of questions that I have received after giving the Composition for Kids lecture. The first three questions came from members of KMTA this summer. They included:
Several budding composers have asked my advice on submitting manuscripts to publishing companies. I’ve given them a few suggestions, but I recently found this Guide to Submitting Manuscripts from the Lorenz Corporation that captures a lot of the things that composers need to consider before submitting manuscripts.
There is excellent advice contained in this document including researching the “personality” of the publishing company to […]
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