Comments on: Scores, the New MP3s? Sheet Music Sales Online for Artists

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:59:00 +0000

@ gbsr

I too would love to see a Xanopticon track transcribed to sheet music – with as many sounds as he uses in one second of music, that sheet would quickly become a book as you stated. :) Xanopticon would be a close second to my personal favorite, Venetian Snares. I don’t know how either of them begin to create what they do.

By: Musicnotes

Musicnotes — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:56:34 +0000

David (Cake), we understand your frustration, but you should know that it is not in our company policy to ever force a customer to “re-purchase” a file if they have a printer error. We encourage you to call our customer service department to rectify this situation at your earliest convenience. (Link to customer service department) We value your feedback and hope that you do not think unkindly of us for this misunderstanding. Best wishes on your music, Musicnotes.com.

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By: rick

rick — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:20:45 +0000

I’ve been distributing my works (large and small jazz ensemble, sax quartet, etc.) as PDFs for a few years now.
I don’t have a completely automated online store yet, but do accept payments via PayPal, after which I immediately email parts and scores to customers.
They’re thrilled in part because they never worry about the consequences of a student losing the 3rd Trombone part, for instance. They also appreciate the immediate-ness of receiving the product digitally. And I like the fact that I receive 100% of salewin-win as far as I can see, and the best is yet to come, I believe.
shamelessly: my website

By: David Cake

David Cake — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:06:53 +0000

Musicnotes.com has this horrible system where instead of getting a straight digital file, they attempt to enforce you being able to print the file exactly once (and actually tell you that if there was a problem with your printer and it didn’t work, you have to buy it again). Actually, it seems they have learnt nothing from the whole music industry struggle with DRM, and we have to have the same stupid debate again every time, with each new company having to learn again that treating your customers convenience as a priority is a much better idea than assuming they are all thieves.

One use of this system, and I never want to use it again, and I now pretty much loathe musicnotes.com. *sigh*

By: Online Sheet Music

Online Sheet Music — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:17:30 +0000

[...] for awhile and the soon to be released Spirit Moves is no exception. There’s a good article about artists and online sheet music sales at createdigitalmusic.com that brings up some great points. Could the rise in sales of online sheet [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:07:18 +0000

A number of jazz labels are starting to offer this – the option to buy leadsheets to all the songs with a CD. Greenleaf Music has been doing this for awhile.

Not sure how applicable this is for other types of music. It’ll be interesting to see where it goes.

By: James

James — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:44:09 +0000

I think this is wonderful for people who generally write for large ensembles, and who are mostly unknown because large ensembles don’t like to take risks on new composers.

Now maybe some new music of our time can come to these orchestras who continue to play only music that was considered great from the past (as much as i love all of that).

That is why I’m excited about this.

and to add to the other conversation about electronic music scores. Having to interpret the composers vision is half the fun. Every performer comes out with their own version of the piece. Obviously a little notes section can go a long way to describe the types of effects and sounds they are after…

By: Kassen

Kassen — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:20:56 +0000

Perhaps most interesting to me in this is how the issues mentioned above may expose changes in what we considder musical.

Last night, inspired by this, I experimented with composing pieces that were as simple as possible to notate (typically 10 or less lines of code) but that would be utterly impossible to put into traditional score format, while still being interesting to listen to (at least for me).

I did this in ChucK (I do all of my music in ChucK, these days), but in the light of some of the remarks above it’s probably worthwhile to point out that CSound has always taken care to stay backwards compattible. Pieces written in CSound decades ago can still be rendered now and should sound the exact same.

I feel this is a non-trivial point; not just compared to using a Ableton Live file with a gazillion plugins that may or may not work a few decades from now but also compared to scores by baroque and classical era composers where we aren’t at all sure of the exact intentions in all cases. Renditions of such pieces may vary in ways that we might call a entirely different piece if such changes were made to a minimal techno track; the exact things that make a techno track unique and interesting are the things that staff-based scores seem unable to properly convey.

By: gbsr

gbsr — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:59:20 +0000

i want the latest xanopticon album as a music score sheet paper please..

wait did i say paper? i meant book ;)