Re: Thinking about putting together a grant to support development on LilyPond

[Rodolfo Zitellini]

There are loads of music up to the 20th century that wait to be
published in a good edition, but I think the kikstarter was so
successful mostly because the Goldbergs are a quite popular and
famous.
We could easily find something appealing to scholars like me (I dream
of and integral of Torelli :) ), but for the general public it may be
a bit more difficult - maybe we could use a new edition of the Musical
Offering?

Rodolfo


On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:38 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2012/2/10 Nick Payne <address@hidden>:
>>> On 10/02/12 10:00, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>>>> Heck, let's do it!
>>>> Do you know of any famous pieces of music without freely accessible
>>>> scores? [...]
>>>
>>> The minimum required by the Berne convention is 50 years beyond the authors
>>> death before a work becomes public domain.
>>
>> Ok, here are some ideas:
>> - Sergei Rachmaninoff died in March 1943.  If we start a year-long
>> project now, we will finish roughly when most of his works will fall
>> out of copyright.
>
> How would one cooperate while they are not yet out of copyright?  Want
> to risk having your servers seized?  It is in the best interest of
> Sergei Rachmaninoff if anybody doing things like that ends up in jail,
> since he was able to provide a living for his grandchildren only by
> selling rights to publishing companies that paid as much since they were
> planning to make the most of it, with him living or dead.
>
> I expect that in a few years, composers becoming famous in their life
> time will get life support systems paid by their publishers, preferably
> after they are brain dead but in a defensible way not legally dead, in
> order to be able to extend copyrights.
>
> Every publishing company will entertain a zombie house where some parts
> of composers/writers are kept legally alive for the sake of copyright
> extensions.
>
>> - Maurice Ravel died in 1937
>> - Gabriel Faure died in 1924
>> - Camille Saint-Saens died in 1921
>> - Claude Debussy died in 1918
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> I'm pretty sure that there might be appropriate works of older
>> composers, just like Bach's Goldberg Variations, but i'm not
>> knowledgeable in this area.
>
> There is certainly quite a matter of material that would be worth
> publishing at a level better reviewed and controlled than "somebody
> typed it off once".
>
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> David Kastrup
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