[Music] Music for Maier's Creed

[noel jones]

Thanks!

This is a news release that just went out:

New Catholic Choirbook available for free

It's a new concept that fills a need.

According to Noel Jones, whose Frog Music Press is behind this new  
choir book, "Musicians are driven by wanting music.  Famous musicians  
such as Bach risked their vision even as young children, copying music  
scores late into the night by candle light.  It's a compulsion, almost  
an addiction to be able to create and recreate beauty day after day by  
singing or playing an instrument. But it takes music."

Photocopying copyrighted music is illegal but music is hard to find  
and expensive to purchase.  Many Catholic church musicians, many of  
them unpaid and without music budgets are forced to stoop to making  
illegal copies, just to be able to do their jobs.

But can permitting photocopying serve a purpose without hurting  
sales?  Noel Jones thinks so.  "Anyone may go on our website and  
download and print as many copies of any of the pages of the  
Choirbook, or even the entire Choirbook.  And we encourage them to  
copy, share the pages and give them away."

The rationale is this.  Rather than make wanting music result in an  
illegal act for some, why not use the natural desire to make beautiful  
music work to publicize a business?

So The Catholic Choirbook 1 may be downloaded and printed for free.   
At the bottom of each page is a link to the website. Will this be  
enough to make this a profitable venture?  Jones thinks so. "At less  
that $10 a copy when buying more than one, it's more affordable to  
order from us than having the Choirbook copied at your local copy  
shop, much less bound. So it's cost-effective to order and buy from us."

But where this really makes a difference is in the church where there  
is no money for music.  A choir director can make copies from their  
computer and printer of just the music they need from the Choirbook  
and finally have the same access to great Catholic music as the large,  
well-funded Catholic church music programs do.

This is Volume I, there are four planned for the series.  They all  
combine choral arrangements of traditional Catholic hymns with great  
choral music of the Church including music for unison, two parts and  
four parts.

Frog Music Press also publishes Catholic Hymnals and  a popular book  
on Gregorian Chant, A Beginner's Guide To Reading Gregorian Chant  
Notation.  All books and music by Frog Music Press may be purchases at Amazon.com 
  or your local Catholic bookstore.



For more information, visit: www.thecatholicchoirbook.com and www.frogmusic.com

Noel Jones, AAGO
423 887-7594
noeljones at usit.net

www.frogmusic.com

Friends, life is short and we do not have much time to gladden the  
hearts of those who travel with us; so be swift to love and make haste  
to be kind.




On Nov 8, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Robert Waldrop wrote:

> Noel, didn't I read something on the pipeorg-l list about you  
> publishing
> a new choir book for Catholic choirs and are working on a volume 2?   
> If
> so, feel free to say a little about your project(s).
>
> Bob Waldrop, Epiphany Church, OKC
> music2justpeace.org list owner and moderator
>
>
> noel jones wrote:
>> Check with the people on the www.musicasacra.com forum...
>>
>> Noel Jones, AAGO
>> 423 887-7594
>> noeljones at usit.net
>>
>> www.frogmusic.com
>>
>> Friends, life is short and we do not have much time to gladden the
>> hearts of those who travel with us; so be swift to love and make  
>> haste
>> to be kind.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Anne wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Am looking for where to purchase the music, including organ part,  
>>> for
>>> Theodore Maier's Creed.  Haven't had any
>>> success with Google searches.
>>>
>>> Please!  Help!
>>>
>>> Thank you :)
>>>
>>> Anne B
>>>
>>>
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