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Subject: Re: Copying music for auditions
Date sent: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:17:27 +0100
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Richard Barrett wrote :

<< The Xerox machine is the worst thing to have ever happened to sheet
music, period - it's the sole reason for music prices having been driven u=
p
as much as they have.>>

It is also probably the reason why so few single arias can now be bought. =
By
not reprinting and distributing them any longer, publishers seem to
implicitly allow the copying of one single aria from a whole score... With=
in
a few years, if publishers are clever enough (which will not be the case f=
or
all of them, especially in France!), separate arias will probably be
available from the internet as pdf files or such, but we live in a
transition period, during which obvious things are uselessly complicated.

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