Re: [tuning] The big battle of the tiny [microtonal publication]

From: Joseph Pehrson <josephpehrson@compuserve.com>

> Unfortunately, yes... he owns the copyrights on ALL the music I give
> him,

This is NOT a traditional publishing arrangement. You should definitely
re-negotiate or go elsewhere. While income from score sales are negligible
(rentals can be more lucrative), no publisher of serious music (Peters,
Schott, Boosey etc.) should get any more than half of the licence fees for
performances, broadcasts and mechanicals. And composers with any draw can
negotiate these royalties down quite a bit, typically limiting the
publisher's share to a third, or less if the publisher fails to promote the
work, and also depending upon how much the publisher invests in the
published materials.

Frog Peak and Material Press concentrate on score sales alone and most of
the composers retain 100% of their royalties.

Daniel Wolf

Joseph Pehrson wrote,

> Virtually ALL of my music now includes microtonality,

I noticed that Joe has put up another batch of nice pieces at his
mp3.com site, and two of these are certainly very "microtonal": the JI
"Harmonic Etude" for the Belgian French horn virtuoso Francis Orval,
and the 1/8th tone "One Small Step for Man" for bassoonist Johnny
Reinhard - Check 'em out.

Dan