Chapter 14 in the future of the music business
This chapter is quite dry because it is yet another interview. While I think it’s interesting, it really should be a supplemental to the book not in it… if I wanted to read the interview, I’d go find it. Anyway, this interview is with John Buckman who created his own record company. What’s new about his record label is that “it offers free mp3s streams, all the of the music don’t have DRM or copy protection, and Creative commons are part of its business model” (265). Another thing that is interesting about this company is that the revenue from cds is split with artists/musicians fifty-fifty (270)
Chapter 15
This chapter discusses creative commons, what is, and what it does. According to Gordons, Creative commons “seeks to foster a more permissive atmosphere in which creators will not be afraid of being sued each time they use portions of existing work to create something new and original” (272). In my mind, the most one that I can think that gets used a lot is the license that says “the creator can also choose a license that permits only noncommercial use, thus retaining financial control over their work” (272). This license is like to get used by those performing or auditioning for things. Also in this chapter is an interview with Thomas Goetz who writes for Wired about Creative Commons in the real world, as well as how creative commons is used a business model (to get promote different artists on one cd)
Chapter 16
Yet again, Gordons has two interviews as part of the chapter. It’s getting really old and very very uninteresting. Both of these interviews are with CEOs of internet record stores (CD Baby and Beyond.fm). It’s a little interesting to read about these websites beginnings but since I have no interest in using either one, it’s rather dull and not really all that fun to read.
10 sites of your choice from the Harvard College Library Online Resources for Music Scholars
Really well done site. Colors are easy to read. Search functions well and how to browse is simple yet effective! This site not only has music but images as well. One thing I didn't like, with the images is that to get the details about the image you had to click a + to get it. It really should up and a user shouldn't have to click anything. Another thing that was hard on this site was to actually found their digital music. It seems that this site is more about the images than music. To find it you had to go to the different library divisons and click on the Music Division.
Good design and colors. Searching and browsing their collection is really easy. However you can't really see or listen to anything as it's all through MTSU so that was rather frustrating. Would be nice if I could see things
Their browsing is fine but the type is super small. Would make that bigger... You can't hear any of the music but you can see the titles of the sheet music which is neat. Most of the music is from the early part of the 20th century. What is neat about this website is that you can put in your own scans of the music and make your own virtual collection.
Since I like to browse new cites by their index, this site has an index by title which is extremely nice! Its very easy to read and the search function works well. One issue that while you can see the digital collections, it takes forever to load them...I don't know if its because I'm not part of Harvard but none of the digital scores ever loaded which was frustrating.
As someone who loves Balanchine ballets, I was super excited to see and review this site. Not a fan of the color scheme but at least its not black and white. This site includes Balanchine's life, bibliography, videography, and filmography. What's to bad about this site is that there are no photographs, no videos, no sound recordings. Just a catalogue of his works.
I heart this site so much. I've really only used it to look up past web pages but now that I know that it does media, I'll be using it even more. Searching for anything is super easy and love the layout
I love that you can search by Composers, lyricists, names, and shows. Such an easy way to do things! Plus it's Library of Congress, so I know it's going to be a good and trusted site. If you need to see sheet music or scores, this is probably the site to do it (for free). The shows in there are older shows however. It only gives that the LoC has them.
One of the most well known composers and conductors of all time, this collection, done again, by the Library of Congress, is a landfill of material. It includes material about the man as well as photographs.
Having become reccently more interested in opera, this site is a good one for finding information about different operas. Not a big fan of the opening graphic but hey that's their choice. Lots of different search functions, I chose to browse. Quite easy and ordered alphabetical. One cool think about the Met is you can listen to whole operas on their site through their "Met Player" or on satellite radio if you have it.
Like the Bernstein collection above, this Library of Congress collection has letters, photographs (which you can view) and information on all the music that Aaron Copland composed. Very helpful to research.
Review of http://evolver.fm/
I cannot get past bad website deisgn! Black/gray background with white letter is a web design no no! Just don't do it! This site seems to be geared toward people with smart phones (which I am not one of). So it's very uninteresting to me.
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