Ars Technica
Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want to include a Beethoven sonata as background music in your wedding video, documentary, or indie feature film? You'll need to pay unless you can dig up an ancient recorded copy from the early 1900s (and can live with the sound quality). (22/05)
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Classical music giant Deutsche Grammophon will make the bulk of its catalog available online from tomorrow when it relaunches its Website and presses the ...
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Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ...
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Waking up in the morning to Herbert von Karajan on the radio, I have to rub my eyes and check the calendar to make sure that Mao Tse-tung is not alive ...
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PEOPLE who pay the least attention to classical music probably know Mozart's clarinet concerto and quintet, two indelibly beautiful works. But how many ...
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As I write this article, I feel that I am writing about something that we prefer not talking about. Should I write this or not? Do we in the musical fraternity ...
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Are we our own worst enemies? Is the world of classical music too stuffy by half? Certainly Muso magazine seems to think so. According to its website, ...
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U.S. biologists have found a way to present human protein sequences as classical music in an attempt to help vision-impaired scientists. Rie Takahashi ...
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Opera lovers and classical music aficionados have long lamented the particular difficulties they face in organizing their music in digital programs and ...
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Composer Steve Reich does not expect his memorial piece for Daniel Pearl to stop what he calls the "medieval religious war" that claimed the reporter's ...
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Far from being fuddy-duddy traditionalists, classical music fans are embracing new technology as never before, new research reveals. Three-quarters listen ...
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After nearly two years on the job, Gilbert Hetherwick, the president of Sony BMG Masterworks, has been made redundant as part of an large-scale overhaul, ...
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'For you English, football is more important than life or death," says a young jazz fan in Moscow's Dom club, quoting Bill Shankly's famous comment. ...
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John Peel's sudden demise touched the nation so profoundly that even the second anniversary of his death is being marked next Thursday with an entire ...
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Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ...
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CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ...
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In the small San Diego County offices of French multimedia giant Thomson, employees crank up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," a recording laden ...
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A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an ...
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Forget about Warner Music Group's plummeting stock price, or the shrinking retail floor space. Forget about EMI's announcement this week that it's cutting ...
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In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ...
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In a short news post on the Nine Inch Nails website, Trent Reznor yesterday announced that his contract with Interscope has been fulfilled and he is now ...
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La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, Shareaza, ...
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The woman who lost the nation's first Recording Industry Association of America music pirating trial said Monday she is appealing the $222,000 verdict ...
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Warner Music Group Corp. may fall following a report that Madonna will leave the company and sign a recording and performance contract with Live Nation ...
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In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, ...
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The Fader Label, the recording branch of The Fader, today announced the release of the new recording by esteemed poet, artist and musician Saul Williams: ...
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A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and ...
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Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ...
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Later this year, over 30 young people from Shillong and Lucknow will travel to Rio and experience the work of Afro Reggae first hand.
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Modlife is interactive website for fans of the band Angels & Airwaves (created by Tom Delonge, former lead singer of punk-rock band blink182). People who ...
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At the Consumer Electronics Show this year it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident ...
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A 12-year-old boy is on the streets, hanging out in derelict tenement blocks next to a motorway. At 13, he's hooked on crack cocaine, carrying a gun and ...
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HIP-HOP kids may not want to hear it, but the godfather of turntablism is a 52-year-old white guy who was raised in Switzerland, lives in London, collaborates ...
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You are more likely to discover broken pint glasses than a revolutionary music business model on the spittle-flecked floor of Camden's Barfly venue. However, ...
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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan lives in a world of sound and harmony — and that's true, literally. He's now pushed the boundaries further by turning composer ...
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Playing music on plastic guitars is big business. Guitar Hero 3 has become quite the runaway hit at retail, and with Rock Band now released, we have two ...
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Madonna is pondering hanging up on Warner Music Group in favor of life without a traditional record contract. With the Material Girl's existing pact with ...
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The King is dead. Long live the King. At least he sort of lives in “All Shook Up,” a jukebox musical riding the nostalgia train on two dozen tunes Elvis ...
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Tehran Symphony Orchestra conductor Nader Mashayekhi plans to test Iranian tastes for the unusual music of U.S. avant-garde composer John Milton Cage, ...
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Who's afraid of Ludwig van Beethoven? Well, Ed Harris was, just a bit. In almost three decades of moviemaking, the blue-eyed character actor has played ...
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