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The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: The Benefits of Entrepreneurship
Welcome to week two of The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business. I’d like to spend this week addressing some basics and laying a bit of groundwork before we launch into some of the meatier topics I have...
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The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Copyright Part 1
This week’s installment is part one in a multi-part series on copyright that I’ll be writing over the next few weeks. This week, I want to tackle the basic terminology and concepts behind copyright...
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The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Copyright Part 2
Welcome to this week’s installment of The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business. This week, I’d like to continue our discussion of copyright, and cover the whys and the wherefores of registering your...
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The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Why Self-Publish?
Alright, now that we’ve talked about some non-everyday, slightly esoteric stuff, let’s tackle something a bit meatier and more immediately applicable: publishing your music. Let me say here and now...
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The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Score Design
Let’s take a brief break from talk about finances, and discuss something slightly more aesthetic this week, shall we? One of my major hobby horses is the quality of engraving in a score, which I’ve...
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The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Print vs. Digital
Print vs. digital. Print scores or digital scores? Of course, it’s not a question of either/or. But how can a nearly-thirty-year-old (!) American raised on the evening news not open with a...
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The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Collectives Part 1
One of the things that makes self-promotion so uncomfortable for people is talking about themselves – specifically talking themselves up. It’s just you saying how great you are. One way to alleviate...
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The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Competitions Pt 5: Odds & Ends
[This is part five of a multi-part miniseries of posts on composition competitions. Competitions are typically a significant part of a composer’s coming-of-age process, and young composers in...
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Co-opetition
Co-opetition. I came across this term recently, and it’s a concept that I really like. A portmanteau of cooperation and competition, it rather perfectly sums up my philosophy on working with other...
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New distributors
figcaption {text-align:center; font-style: italic; margin-bottom:15px} This past year, I’ve been working toward upping my publishing game. (I’ve got a rant about publishing coming up in another post,...
View ArticleThe Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: The Benefits of Entrepreneurship
Welcome to week two of The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business. I’d like to spend this week addressing some basics and laying a bit of groundwork before we launch into some of the meatier topics I have...
View ArticleThe Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Copyright Part 1
This week’s installment is part one in a multi-part series on copyright that I’ll be writing over the next few weeks. This week, I want to tackle the basic terminology and concepts behind copyright...
View ArticleThe Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Copyright Part 2
Welcome to this week’s installment of The Composer’s Guide to Doing Business. This week, I’d like to continue our discussion of copyright, and cover the whys and the wherefores of registering your...
View ArticleThe Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Why Self-Publish?
Alright, now that we’ve talked about some non-everyday, slightly esoteric stuff, let’s tackle something a bit meatier and more immediately applicable: publishing your music. Let me say here and now...
View ArticleThe Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Score Design
Let’s take a brief break from talk about finances, and discuss something slightly more aesthetic this week, shall we? One of my major hobby horses is the quality of engraving in a score, which I’ve...
View ArticleThe Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Print vs. Digital
Print vs. digital. Print scores or digital scores? Of course, it’s not a question of either/or. But how can a nearly-thirty-year-old (!) American raised on the evening news not open with a...
View ArticleThe Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Collectives Part 1
One of the things that makes self-promotion so uncomfortable for people is talking about themselves – specifically talking themselves up. It’s just you saying how great you are. One way to alleviate...
View ArticleThe Composer’s Guide to Doing Business: Competitions Pt 5: Odds & Ends
[This is part five of a multi-part miniseries of posts on composition competitions. Competitions are typically a significant part of a composer’s coming-of-age process, and young composers in...
View ArticleCo-opetition
Co-opetition. I came across this term recently, and it’s a concept that I really like. A portmanteau of cooperation and competition, it rather perfectly sums up my philosophy on working with other...
View ArticleNew distributors
This past year, I’ve been working toward upping my publishing game. (I’ve got a rant about publishing coming up in another post, so be prepared for that.) One of the steps I’ve taken toward putting on...
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