July 7, 2007
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Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D’Arezzo
This is an excellent book to introduce to young children (and the young at heart) about how printed music actually began! While living in Queens, New York, Susan Roth thought that her surroundings reflected a diverse place where people came from many different ethnic backgrounds. The children may not speak the same language, but they could communicate in a universal language by reading music. This is what inspired Roth to write her book and hold tribute to the creator of written music!
For many years, Guido D’Arezzo, a young man from Tuscany imagined that his system of lines and spaces could be used as a written language of music, and he was determined to make his ideas work. The reader will marvel at this historical documentation, which begins with a gracious acknowledgment to the author’s friend and scholar Angelo Mafucci, and a foreword admiring Guido D’Arezzo’s music writing method, written by Mafucci. The young reader will appreciate the final glossary page, which includes both current as well as ancient definitions. The author’s note page features historical documentation and research, while the select bibliography page offers numerous references.
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I was captured with the beautiful illustrations, which were collages made of papers from all over the world, including many from Italy. Each page is printed in a different color, to enhance these illustrations. As the reader travels through the book, the author shares the emotions and frustrations of the hero, Guido, indicated with the illustrations and clearly stated story. The larger text was carefully placed on each page, as if it was part of each illustration. At the story’s conclusion, Roth selected a page to explain the graphics of Guido’s new system of lines and spaces, and she also converted the notation to a modern day staff.
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How To Copyright Your Music To Protect Your Future Royalties
Many musicians confuse copyrighting music with registering music; these are two different things. According to the law in the United States, once you have written or recorded your music in a permanent form, it is automatically copyrighted.
Of course, it might help to first understand what it means to copyright music. A copyright is a certain legal protection that is offered to those who compose creative works, whether those works are art, music, or the written word. The U. S. Constitution states there are limits one can place on the amount of time the work is exclusively protected.
If you copyright music, this means you (and you alone) have the right to use your work or allow others to use your work. You also have the right to distribute copies of your work. Whether those copies are in the form of written or sheet music or recorded music to the public as well as the right to perform your music for the public.
There is something called Fair Use (more commonly known as the Fair Use Doctrine) that allows anyone to use your written or recorded music for the purpose of research, news reporting, commentary, or criticism. In other words, there are times when the use of copyrighted material is deemed appropriate without the consent of the one holding the copyright.
In some cases, copyrighting music alone is not enough to protect your music, at least not without going through a lot of hoops to do so. One of the things you can do to protect your copyright is provide notice of copyright. This involves writing a simple statement such as using the word “copyright,” the date, and your name at the bottom of your sheet music or on the case for the recording or the actual recording itself. CDs are the most common means for recording devices today and a notice of copyright can easily be added to the exterior of your CD or on your label if you have one printed.
