Hello friends,
I am new to Shared Weight. I am seeking advice about getting permission to use copyrighted music for English Country Dances that I have composed recently.
I would like to post my dances on YouTube with recordings found on CDs and/or YouTube. I did some research online. Some articles recommended going through music licensing companies. Having looked at their websites, it seems clear the companies work with business entities that have an income stream and a budget to work with. I am just a private individual with little money to spend.
Others in the ECD community have worked with copyrighted music in the past. Jenna Simpson, for example, has used music from the Boldwood ensemble and Nova ensemble for several of her dances. I need to know the best way to do this. Should I, for instance, offer a fee for using the music with a YouTube video? If so, what is a reasonable amount to offer? Do I need a formal letter of permission from the recording artist to send to YouTube? If I request that the recording artist get income from the advertisements that run before the video, how does that artist get paid? Do I forward contact information from the artist to YouTube?
--A little about myself: I have a Master’s degree in Dance and have professional training in dance, dance notation, choreography, dance history, ethnic dance research, and theater production. I taught folk dance professionally for many years and wrote a book as well as several articles on Norwegian folk dance. I have done a variety of choreographies for folk-dance groups, theater, and liturgical ensembles. I am currently teaching and calling ECD for advanced classes at Tapestry Folk Dance Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Thank you for your kind assistance with the above, Daniel Beal
Hello,Sometimes I'd like to record a dance or concert by simply grabbing the feed out of the Mains through the headphone jack and into a jump drive device. Are there any you recommend? I don't want to bring a laptop or something big.
By the way...I'm the one who had the dance hall with echo. We moved to a new hall. Although we tried multiple speakers with delays and hung quilts, the hall was too much to overcome. Here is a 12 second clip of me clapping. I think I heard worse echo once in a metal underground WWII Diefenbunker museum in Carp, Ontario.Robert
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Hi fellow contra musicians :)
I'm reaching out with a question both wearing my contra musician and my
contra caller hat.
*How do you label/categorize your sets?*
*And what descriptors do you like to hear from callers in order to decide
what set to play?*
As a musician, I've played with many different ways of describing my
various bands' sets. As a caller, I've tried various descriptors.
I've tried to capture these in a google document
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18FpoaGreXoj8eXXkCcgksgwgzKVwRncg2ps…>.
The * items are the descriptors I'm likely to rely on if I'm calling. You
can see I often go for describing the movement that the tunes might invoke
and sometimes go to the feelings too.
I'd love to get your input!
You could fill out your own column or two in the table or write back here.
Any and all thoughts welcome.
I'd love to hear your favourite descriptors.
Thanks :)
Emily in Ottawa
Hi fellow contra musicians :)
I'm reaching out with a question both wearing my contra musician and my
contra caller hat.
*How do you label/categorize your sets?*
*And what descriptors do you like to hear from callers in order to decide
what set to play?*
As a musician, I've played with many different ways of describing my
various bands' sets. As a caller, I've tried various descriptors.
I've tried to capture these in a google document
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18FpoaGreXoj8eXXkCcgksgwgzKVwRncg2ps…>.
The * items are the descriptors I'm likely to rely on if I'm calling. You
can see I often go for describing the movement that the tunes might invoke
and sometimes go to the feelings too.
I'd love to get your input!
You could fill out your own column or two in the table or write back here.
Any and all thoughts welcome.
I'd love to hear your favourite descriptors.
Thanks :)
Emily in Ottawa
HI all,
We have a smallish (30-40 dancer) contra that meets weekly in Rochester NY on Thursday evenings from 7:30-10:30pm.
As you can imagine, booking a weekly dance is tough, especially after the Big Hiatus.
We're fortunate to have a collection of talented bands, AND
I would like to add a Monthly or Quarterly "Touring band" to the schedule to add variety and
attract dancers who would not necessarily attend for a local band.
Our Thursday Night dance makes it a great stop-over for bands traveling through WNY.
I am willing to help put you in contact with other organizers in Ithaca, Syracuse, Buffalo and Toronto
to help set up tours. Contact me if you're interested!
Bob Fabinski
OMGoooooodness!
I love this Jeff.
This is SO cool. And I agree with you on all the bands I know.... this is
too great!!!
:) Emily
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Hey trad dance musicians :)
I was wondering if any of you have (or know if there are files) in ABC tune
notation for singing square melodies?
The reason I'm wondering about ABC is that it's so easy to transpose to
different keys to accommodate vocal ranges I can pull the notation from
Ralph Sweet's book, put it into ABC notation and then transpose but if
someone has already done it, I'd rather not reinvent the wheel. Thoughts?
(I've posted the same question on the trad callers listserv but I thought
I'd check with y'all as well!)
The squares I'm interested in are below.
Thanks :)
Emily in Ottawa
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