Sometimes i wish i just had access to a wealth of sheet music so i could practice the songs i want to practice, but it always want, 22 dollars for a song or something like that... i call that outrageous!
Specially considering the volks have been dead for years.
2007-01-12 19:56:24 · 5 answers · asked by philupthetank86 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
It's not, you just have to know where to look.
Download MidiNotate player (it's free)
http://www.notation.com/MidiNotatePlayer.htm
Then you can open midis and the MidiNotate will automatically write the midi out as sheet music for you and then it is printable. It will also play them for you and you can read along the sheet music as it highlights the notes.
I have found that http://www.hamienet.com/ has the best selection of midis especially of musicals.
2007-01-12 20:36:20 · answer #1 · answered by hot brdwy diva 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you wrote a really great song you would want to make money off it, right? And you could sell it at first for maybe 10 bucks. But then a movie director want to by and have it played in a movie, so you raise the amount for a equivlent of how much the director is making. So now your music has been in a movie, and EVERYBODY knows about it. So it is more double what it started at. And you are getting richer by the minnuet!
That story should have should you the meaning to the prices in sheet music. Artists want to make a lot of money!
But wait, as there is more to your question, there is more to the story!
What happens when you die? (Just trying to explain things... not saying your dying or anything!)
You die and then your family, (mom, dad, wife, husband, kids, brother, sister, whatever!) Continues to make money! Everytime someone buys it, everytime it is played on the radio, KACHING! The rest of your family is making some money! So that is all from me. Good luck in your search for cheaper sheet music!
2007-01-13 04:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by energzerbnny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some ones gotta get paid for the ink, paper, shipping, machines to cut the paper. But i agree i wish i could get all the sheet music i wanted for free but what can ya do...
2007-01-12 20:00:43 · answer #3 · answered by cavigirl17 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have, quite literally, thousands of pieces of music in my library.
For starters, works by dead classical composers (dead for over 75+ years)... all their work is public domain, and with a bit of "googling" you can easily fine their music for free.
As far as the other composers, who aren't "decomposing composers" yet...
The sale of music is how they make a living, be it in the form of recordings, live performances or sheet music. With the case of sheet music, you're also paying for the person who arranged it (not all composers arrange their own music for print), the engraver (the person who takes the written music and puts it into the computer so it looks all nice and type-written), the editor, the publisher, as well as the music store who is selling it, not to mention the cost of the paper its' printed on.
I've never heard of ONE song costing $22. A collection of songs in which there is only one song you want to play, perhaps. Individual sheets of contemporary music usually cost between $5 to $12 dollars (usually depending on how long the song is).
2007-01-12 20:07:03 · answer #4 · answered by pianogal73 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Thats the company of music... I have the same problem... Especially classical music is very expensive...
2007-01-13 03:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by ALEXANDER Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they sell so little of it. It is all about supply and demand
2007-01-12 20:02:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋