30 Oct
2017
30 Oct
'17
11:45 a.m.
There are a lot of opinions and wishes out there. Here are mine, about publishing
transcriptions of my compositions:
I wish more people liked and played my tunes!
I’d love to have transcriptions of my tunes out in the realms of folk and contra dance
music. If my name, as composer, is on the transcriptions, GREAT! If not … oh, well.
It’s at least possible that someone with questionable taste (not to mention questionable
values) might claim composership of something I made up, but it’s not keeping me awake at
night. For one thing, documentation exists for everything I’ve composed. For another,
even if someone did succeed in “stealing” composership of something I made up, the people
who really matter to me know the score, as it were.
Except for The Montague Processional, none of my tunes are licensed, thus can be played in
venues which don’t purchase licenses from ASCAP and BMI.
Unless I manage to compose some tunes which more people find more interesting, all of the
above is kind of moot …
David Kaynor
On Oct 30, 2017, at 10:49 AM, Emily Addison via
Musicians <musicians(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hi All,
A question for you about general etiquette on posting recently composed tunes (as in last
20-30yrs).
I've seen MANY MANY recently composed tunes online through websites like The Session
but also contra websites too. Often these are posted by someone other than the composer
and it's not listed as to whether they have permission to post.
Here in Ottawa, our community band (we're not pros and play almost all our gigs for
free.), we're working on learning a varied contra music repertoire for dancing. In
fact, our community band is called 'Stolen Goods' as we're about learning from
others.
I've been thinking that it would be nice to post our sets online as part of the wider
sharing so that others can benefit... just like we've benefited from looking at what
others (like SPUDS) have posted.
What's the etiquette here?
For instance, we play a handful of Keith Murphy tunes and he's got books. And we
have Larry Unger and others too...
If we post a few is that ok? Seems that's what others do, especially in irish and
quebecois traditions but I'm just not sure as some of the contra musicians have tune
books. Could refer to a few tune books.
Also, we've written out a few sets from other bands (e.g., one from Wild Asparagus)
as we're trying to learn from their groove/chord lines etc. and we are just a local
learning band that plays for 20 dancers. If we only have 1-2 from a particular band, are
those ok to post?
Looking for your thoughts!
By no means do I need to post of course... ... .just interested in giving back to the
wider community what we've been learning over the last number of years.
With thanks :)
Emily Addison in Ottawa
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