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 <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 2012/2/10 Nick Payne <nick.pa...@internode.on.net>: >>> 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". > > -- > David Kastrup > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
