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

Joseph!
Outside of agreeing with Daniel Wolf, it seems you could be out your music under an
assumed name! As far as Partch and Helmholtz being slanted, I agree, that is why i tried to
add a few others and welcomed Paul addition to mine ( although i have never seen it). i do
believe that both for their times opened the field up more than they constricted it!

Joseph Pehrson wrote:

> > Joseph!
> > what does this mean- your publisher? does he own your music or something
>
> Hi Kraig!
>
> Unfortunately, yes... he owns the copyrights on ALL the music I give
> him, and he is an anti-microtonalist... I am sorry to have to report
> this. He is a very independent soul... also somewhat of a right-winger,
> which I detest, but a nice athiest, which I rather admire... He's an
> odd duck, that is for certain...
>
> The arrangement is the same as most people have with "traditional"
> sheet-music publishers... The publisher owns the copyright and I get 10%
> of the proceeds which is, admittedly, not much. This is the traditional
> "deal" over many, many years.
>
> So why do I give him any of my music?... Well, I can't handle it
> myself... by my nature, I would just give it away at my own expense.
> I'm a very poor capitalist, so I would rather have others do the "dirty
> work" for me... [In my own defense, however, I have to admit I "sneak"
> copies of my pieces to performers who can't afford to buy them through
> the publisher -- but no telly!]
>
> Virtually ALL of my music now includes microtonality, and, in fact, the
> publisher has pieces that are EXTENSIVELY microtonal, and things are
> going along OK with these... HOWEVER, I am no longer giving him any
> pieces that are PARTICULARLY microtonal, especially of an "experimental"
> nature... since I might want to include these in SPECIFICALLY microtonal
> publications OR things like the Doty "compilation cassettes or CDs" that
> this publisher wouldn't allow due to his unfortunate and, I believe,
> misinformed bias...
>
> That's the skoop...
>
> JP
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> Joseph Pehrson

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