[Music] Music Digest, Vol 16, Issue 3

[noel jones]

I wondered about that, having gotten some requests for some basic music from others there...If there is sufficient interest in the choirbook (meaning we continue to sell some copies) aside from the free downloads, a series of organ books would probably be next.

We need to revive the music of choirs and organ in the church....while there is a ton of good, free music out there, finding it is difficult.

Our hope is that wealthy churches in the US would buy printed and bound copies from us (it is less expensive than having them copied and bound) and that would make it possible to spend more time on it.

The dream is that this project will spread free copies all over, to us that's more important than making money, so far about one book goes out paid for every ten  downloaded and that makes us happy!


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

www.frogmusic.com

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On Nov 12, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Rachelle T. Rule wrote:

> "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."
> 
> I must admit - this is very true in the Philippines. So, what most church musicians here do is to  try to learn a piece by "oido" or memory. Eventually, when the piece is played in church, it may have the rudiments of the original score, but with differences, based upon how well the musician remembers the score. 
> 
> Rachelle
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