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- Posted at 6:26 PM on 7/28/2006 by March 11, 2004 -- dorm40music.com announces the launch of their new website http://www.dorm40music.com. This site will give musicians the ability to sell sheet music of their compositions and arrangements on the internet. All types of music will be accepted, including songs, opera, orchestra, chamber ensemble, band, choir, solo instruments and more. The site will also give writers the ability to sell their literary works on the internet, including novels, poetry, articles, journals, short stories and more. Musicians and writers post their works to the site for free and set the price for the sale of each work. dorm40music.com pays the musician or writer a royalty for each work sold. Ownership rights of all works remain that of the musician or writer. All works submitted must conform to applicable copyright law in the United States. Musicians can also post a MIDI or WMA "playback" file of their works. As a result, buyers will be able to see a sample page of each score and hear a recording of the composition or arrangement before they buy it. "The ability to both see and hear to the music prior to purchase is a powerful marketing tool" say Craig Garner and Michael Zavoski of dorm40music.com. Buyers are happier with their purchases and they tend to buy more when they know what they're getting. The site also allows musicians and writers to post biographies of themselves as well ascustomized descriptions of each work. Another feature of the site is the events calendar. This free service allows musicians andwriters to post upcoming concerts, readings, recitals or other events which spotlightthemselves or their organization. Posting may include poetry readings, band concerts,performance by a church choir, a brass quintet recital or a new composers concert at the local college. Currently, music can be posted on dorm40music.com using only FINALE (.mus) or PDF files. Literary works must be submitted using WORD or PDF files. Information is available at customersupport@dorm40music.com This article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com. You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact. Musicnotes.com teams with Warner Bros. and other Music Publishers From Britney to Bacharach: Musicnotes.com Teams with Warner Brothers and other Music Publishers to Distribute Legal, Copyrighted and Encrypted Digital Sheet MusicMusicnotes.com features the instant delivery of digital sheet musicMADISON, WI -- July 26, 2000 -- While the battle of Napster and MP3 swapping rages on, online sheet music store Musicnotes.com has joined forces with music publishers, including Warner Bros. and Mel Bay, to take the lead in protecting the copyrighted works of artists and composers.Through distribution agreements with numerous publishers, Musicnotes.com offers ten thousand digital sheet music titles ranging from James Taylor to Christina Aguilera. The Musicnotes Viewer automatically downloads in less than 10 seconds and allows musicians, educators and fans to instantly see, hear, and print free sheet music samples via the Internet. Customers can then purchase and download the entire piece of sheet music using a secure online commerce engine.The free Musicnotes Player enhances the shopping experience by allowing customers to interact with a selected piece of music. The music notation and lyrics light up in time with the music, synchronizing note-for-note with either a MIDI performance or a real performance played from a CD. The user can change the speed of the piece in order to practice at any pace. As an educational aid, every symbol on the music page is linked to a music encyclopedia which enables the user to select a symbol, such as a guitar bend, and specifically hear it or learn how to play it.Musicnotes.com's Founder, Thomas Hall, has developed and refined the technology over the past 18 years. While teaching at Princeton University, Hall created MusE, an electronic music engraving system that became the base technology for Musicnotes.com. In a pivotal development three years ago, Hall and co-founder Walter Burt created technology that was able to compress the digital files, including all the multimedia data that makes the music interactive, to a size that could be delivered rapidly over the Internet. Musicnotes.com has close contacts in the music publishing world and understands the critical role that copyright protection plays in the success of a music publisher. "We have a strong respect for the value of a copyright," remarks Kathleen Marsh, President of Musicnotes.com. "The technology that Tom and Walter developed has secure safeguards built-in through encryption codes, guaranteeing that all royalties will be paid directly to the appropriate people, both the creators and publishers of these pieces."The web site allows customers to browse or search by title, lyric, composer, keyword, arranger, artist/group, or by instrument. Christopher Parr, Vice President of Musicnotes.com, states, "Our goal ultimately is to have the world's most popular and interesting music digitized, catalogued and instantly available to every music maker that has access to the Internet."Additionally, if a customer can't find what they are looking for in digital format, Musicnotes.com provides an extensive selection of over 200,000 traditional music books and single sheets.For more information contact press@musicnotes.comOr visit http://www.musicnotes.comThis article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.Music Forte Inc. Presents 60,000 Hard-Copy Song Books and Sheet MusicCHICAGO, IL August 29, 2004 -- Music Forte Inc. welcomes Hal Leonard, the world's largest music print publisher, to their online storefront (www.musicforte.net.) MusicForte.net is elated to provide hard copies of 60,000 titles in sheet music and songbooks. In a world that is becoming more digital, printing sheet music from home computers has taken a more prominent role - but will it succeed? MusicForte.net prefers the "old-fashioned" way.Chicagoan Greg Percifield (CEO of Music Forte Inc.), has played piano since childhood. "In those days, I'd ride my bicycle down the block to the nearest music store and search through the archives of my favorite artist. It was thrilling to take home an authentic publication. In fact, I still have them - almost 30 years later!" Today, that excitement is a rarity. Online music storefronts are switching to "instant printing" methods. These new publishing outlets believe that the consumer would prefer to save a dollar and some time, by printing their music from their home computers - instantly."Having recently purchased a digital print of Bruce Hornsby's ‘Mandolin Rain,' I'll admit that I was impressed when the music was in my hands in less than five minutes. The results, however, were extremely disappointing," says Greg. For many people, their archives of hard-copy sheet music still remain in nice condition, proudly displayed on their piano's music stand. Hard copy sheet music often displays pictures of the artist, with the titles formatted just as they appear on album sleeves, cassette tapes, CDs, and DVDs. One thing is for sure, it is authentic. That is why people handle it with care. They want to keep it. It is memorabilia. Just as readers are proud of the books they store in their bookshelves, many musicians feel the same pride about their hard copy music."As for my digitally-printed score, the thin paper has already been scattered about. A phone number has been scribbled on the back, treated like regular scrap paper. The only sure way to keep it organized is with a staple in the top-left corner." It's no surprise that these digital outlet stores cannot provide complete songbooks. The result would be nothing short of disastrous.Music Forte Inc. is proud of the music they provide, and you should be too. Come browse our shop of over 60,000 hard-copy publications in sheet music and songbooks (www.musicforte.net.) About Music Forte, Inc. Founded in 2003, Music Forte Inc. (www.musicforte.net ) provides musician services ranging from introductions to clients for the commercial jingle industry, CD promotion, and now is a leader in hard copy sales, providing songbooks, sheet music, educational publications, reference books, videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs, children's music products and more. The online storefront represents in print some of the world's best known and most respected publishers, artists, writers and arrangers. Music Forte Inc. is headquartered in Chicagoland's Naperville, IL and also has an office in Scottsdale, AZ.This article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.How to Research Absolutely Anything How to Research Absolutely Anything Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP How to Research Absolutely Anything Author: Stephanie Cage Have you ever thought about writing non-fiction but been put off by the amount of research involved? Writing about what you know helps, as you’re likely to have the information you need at your fingertips, or at least know where to find it, but if you’re anything like me, you will still need to check up on a detail every so often. The truth is, research is hard to avoid. Even as a fiction writer, you will still need to check facts once in a while. It might be a historical detail (would your hero have been wearing a top hat or bowler?), a fact about a place or person, or even the lyrics of your heroine’s favourite song. Sometimes you can avoid the problem by being vague. Instead of naming the song, say, ‘He was humming that annoying tune again.’ If you don’t know exactly how big the boat was, say, ‘It was about the length of a swimming pool’. However, do this too often, and you lose the sense of reality, of a scene coming alive, that comes from a precisely imagined and described story world. So how do you go about finding the information you need to fill the gaps in your story or article? As a researcher, there are five main sources of information I turn to, roughly in this order:1 – Home reference books. Looking things up at home is quick and convenient, and a good encyclopaedia can fill in background information on a huge range of topics. However, it may not contain the specific information you’re looking for, and sometimes even if it contains the answer, it may be hard to find. For example, if you know want to find out more about Ellen MacArthur, it’s great, but it’s not much help if you can’t remember the surname of ‘that woman who sailed around the world – Ellen someone.’ 2 – The Internet The Internet is a great starting point if you can’t remember the exact details of what you’re looking for. Type ‘Ellen’ and ‘around the world sailing’ into Google and the odds are that sooner or later the name ‘MacArthur’ will crop up. It can be useful for tracking down poetry and song lyrics too, because it doesn’t matter if you can’t remember the title or first line – if it’s on the Internet, then typing any line into a search engine will help you track it down. 3 - Libraries If you can’t find what you need at home, in most cases the next stop will be your local library. They will have a wider range of reference books, as well as other subject-related books. For example, if you need to add colour to your novel about a woman sailor, you could look out for interesting details in a biography of Ellen MacArthur. If you’re really new to a subject, start from scratch with a child’s reference book. They’re often surprisingly informative as well as having lots of helpful illustrations. If your local library fails, you may have to resort to a larger library further afield – main copyright libraries have every book you could wish for, although it’s worth calling in advance to check that the book you’re looking for is immediately available. 4 - Tourist informationSometimes libraries aren’t much help because the information you’re looking for changes frequently. This is particularly true in travel writing, where you can end up looking foolish if a hotel or restaurant has closed down since your visit, or a museum or gallery has changed its opening hours. That’s when the area’s tourist information is invaluable. 5 - People If you haven’t found what you’re looking for using any of these methods, or if you want more details than the average reference book provides, you’ll need to look for someone in the know who can help you out. For general information, museum curators, gallery owners and librarians are often very helpful, but sometimes you’ll need something more specific. In that case, the best tactic can be to find an association related to the topic. If you want to find out about details of the Civil War for your battle scene, is there a re-enactment society near you? There’s bound to be someone who can answer your questions, and you might even get a chance to see the atmosphere of a Civil War battle for yourself and pick up some details you’d never have thought to ask about. Finally, if that fails, fall back on the theory that everyone on the planet is connected by just six links and ask everyone you know (work colleagues, fellow writers group members, friends and relatives) whether they know anyone who might be able to help you. Tell them it’s for a book (or magazine article, or whatever) and most people are glad to help – that’s the beauty of being a writer. About the AuthorStephanie Cage is a writer and researcher based in Berkshire, UK. She writes regularly for The Agony Column and newbooksmag and has also been published in e-Quip (the e-zine of the British Society of Comedy Writers) and Link (the magazine of the National Association of Writers’ Groups), where this article first appeared. Visit her at www.stephaniecage.co.uk ... From Britney to Bacharach: Musicnotes.com teams with Warner Bros. and other Music Publishers to DistFrom Britney to Bacharach: Musicnotes.com Teams with Warner Brothers and other Music Publishers to Distribute Legal, Copyrighted and Encrypted Digital Sheet MusicMusicnotes.com features the instant delivery of digital sheet musicMADISON, WI -- July 26, 2000 -- While the battle of Napster and MP3 swapping rages on, online sheet music store Musicnotes.com has joined forces with music publishers, including Warner Bros. and Mel Bay, to take the lead in protecting the copyrighted works of artists and composers.Through distribution agreements with numerous publishers, Musicnotes.com offers ten thousand digital sheet music titles ranging from James Taylor to Christina Aguilera. The Musicnotes Viewer automatically downloads in less than 10 seconds and allows musicians, educators and fans to instantly see, hear, and print free sheet music samples via the Internet. Customers can then purchase and download the entire piece of sheet music using a secure online commerce engine.The free Musicnotes Player enhances the shopping experience by allowing customers to interact with a selected piece of music. The music notation and lyrics light up in time with the music, synchronizing note-for-note with either a MIDI performance or a real performance played from a CD. The user can change the speed of the piece in order to practice at any pace. As an educational aid, every symbol on the music page is linked to a music encyclopedia which enables the user to select a symbol, such as a guitar bend, and specifically hear it or learn how to play it.Musicnotes.com's Founder, Thomas Hall, has developed and refined the technology over the past 18 years. While teaching at Princeton University, Hall created MusE, an electronic music engraving system that became the base technology for Musicnotes.com. In a pivotal development three years ago, Hall and co-founder Walter Burt created technology that was able to compress the digital files, including all the multimedia data that makes the music interactive, to a size that could be delivered rapidly over the Internet. Musicnotes.com has close contacts in the music publishing world and understands the critical role that copyright protection plays in the success of a music publisher. "We have a strong respect for the value of a copyright," remarks Kathleen Marsh, President of Musicnotes.com. "The technology that Tom and Walter developed has secure safeguards built-in through encryption codes, guaranteeing that all royalties will be paid directly to the appropriate people, both the creators and publishers of these pieces."The web site allows customers to browse or search by title, lyric, composer, keyword, arranger, artist/group, or by instrument. Christopher Parr, Vice President of Musicnotes.com, states, "Our goal ultimately is to have the world's most popular and interesting music digitized, catalogued and instantly available to every music maker that has access to the Internet."Additionally, if a customer can't find what they are looking for in digital format, Musicnotes.com provides an extensive selection of over 200,000 traditional music books and single sheets.For more information contact press@musicnotes.comOr visit http://www.musicnotes.comThis article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.E-Books Meet Sheet Music: Musicnotes.com Thrives in Dreary Dot Com ClimateMADISON, WI – December 15, 2000 – Musicnotes.com, an online sheet music store featuring a cutting-edge technology that allows musicians to see, hear, and print digital sheet music on their home computers, continues to thrive in an otherwise dreary dot com climate. The Madison, WI based sheet music store has experienced record high digital sheet music sales since launching a redesigned site in May. Musicnotes.com is entering into its third full year of operation. The total digital sheet music orders placed on the site and the number of new customers have nearly quadrupled since June. Musicnotes.com has seen it's net revenue more than triple during the same time period. By offering a definitive e-commerce service that features the instant delivery of sheet music to consumers--as opposed to many sites where customers can order an item such as kitty litter and wait for it to eventually show up--Musicnotes.com continues to move ahead in cyberspace. Through distribution agreements with numerous publishers including Warner Bros. and Mel Bay, Musicnotes.com offers over ten thousand digital sheet music titles ranging from James Taylor and George Gershwin to Christina Aguilera and Beethoven. The site currently features an extensive selection of Holiday sheet music celebrating Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa. As the only online sheet music store/website to offer interactive sheet music, Musicnotes.com features the Musicnotes Viewer, which automatically downloads in less than 10 seconds and allows musicians, educators and fans to instantly see, hear, and print free sheet music samples via the Internet. Customers can then purchase and download the entire piece of sheet music using a secure online commerce engine.The free Musicnotes Player allows customers to interact with a selected piece of music. The music notation and lyrics light up in time with the music, synchronizing note-for-note with either a MIDI performance or a real performance played from a CD. The user can change the speed of the piece in order to practice at any pace. As an educational aid, every symbol on the music page is linked to a music encyclopedia which enables the user to select a symbol, such as a guitar bend, and specifically hear it or learn how to play it.Additionally, if a customer can't find what they are looking for in digital format, Musicnotes.com provides an extensive selection of over 200,000 traditional music books and single sheets.Media Contact: Patrick Hayeshayes@musicnotes.com608-277-9772 ext. 212This article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.Can you get accurate christian music lyrics with y Can you get accurate christian music lyrics with your mp3 downloads? Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP Can you get accurate christian music lyrics with your mp3 downloads? Author: Syd Johnson Christian music has really taken off in the last couple of years. You can find mp3 songs for some of the biggest acts like Jaci Velasquez and DC talk online. The songs are great but then you also need a site with accurate Christian music lyrics as well. It’s not fun to sing along with the tunes if you don’t have the words in front of you. Christian music lyrics are usually uplifting, down home, positive and very family friendly. If you have younger children who are always online and listening to their favorite bands, you want to find the right online music service that will give them the ability to import and store the lyrics on their playlist. Christian music, unlike most other genres gives all of its power through the lyrics. If you see it and read it, you can enhance your enjoyment and learn more about daily Christian living.In addition, access to Christian music lyrics might help to convince secular fans to buy more this type of music and support the new wave of popular artists. If you look at the average song from Jaci, Points of Grace or Nicole Mullen, the stories and messages in the songs are universal and can easily apply to secular music lovers.They are not showcasing their faith, but instead showcasing their life and how faith has impacted them in becoming better people. In addition Christian musicians like their country counterparts still rely on good, old fashion story telling. The art of weaving entire stories around love, loss, family values and worship in a 4 minute song is still pretty common in christian music lyrics. Thankfully, getting access to Contemporary Christian Music lyrics is easier with the resources you can get from the online music stores.So how do you get these lyrics?You start by looking for an mp3 music service that offers direct lyrics from the music publisher or via plugins, software upgrades or on a fee per song basis. Please check back often as we continue to search over the web to keep track of the music stores that are making it easier to store song lyrics with mp3 music files.About the AuthorThis article may be freely distributed as long as there's an active link to http://www.rapidlingo.comSyd JohnsonEditor ... Can you find good gospel song lyrics online Can you find good gospel song lyrics online? Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP Can you find good gospel song lyrics online? Author: Syd Johnson You can get some gospel songs lyrics with mp3 songs from major commercial music services. The only problem is that you won’t get a lot of the stuff by older, more established acts. Let’s face it, the music industry is driven by what is new, hip and youthful. This applies to all genres including gospel music.There are some free fan sites where you can find gospel song lyrics, but it can be difficult to tell if the lyrics are accurate. Your best bet is to try one the software applications that will scour the web for song lyrics and import it into your mp3 player. The larger lyrics directories will have gospel lyrics because they are user driven directories. The lyrics can be submitted by anyone who has access to the text from the CD case, or by transcribing them from the radio. The open nature of the directories gives users the ability to create entire categories and update them if that genre is underserved.Why do I suggest the software route?The time factor. Since Christian music and gospel music in particular is still relatively underserved on the internet, a freeware application that searches for the lyrics while you are surfing the web, playing games online, or chatting on instant messenger is essential.You don’t have to wade through tons of spam and amateur collections to get the complete lyrics from your favorite songs.Also, you want to have the lyrics available while you are listening to the songs. It’s no fun to have the music playing on your mp3 player while searching your emails for the lyrics.Where do I start?Check with the music service where you are getting your mp3. If there is an option to search by genre, you can simply type in gospel song lyrics and wait for the software to update your files and save your changes. Look for discussion boards and user request services as well. If you are getting your mp3s from a really large digital music site try to connect with other users who share your interest in gospel music and ask them if they have access to gospel song lyrics on their own or from a niche site.About the AuthorThis article may be freely distributed as long as there's an active link to http://www.rapidlingo.comSyd JohnsonEditor ... Music Forte Inc. Presents 60,000 Hard-Copy Song Books and Sheet MusicWhere can I get song lyrics online Where can I get song lyrics online? Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP Where can I get song lyrics online? Author: Syd Johnson If you are downloading music online, eventually you’ll want some song lyrics to go with the mp3 files. It is very easy to find song lyrics online, but very difficult to get them integrated into your mp3 player software. Various copyright issues have forced many mp3 downloading services and mp3 player companies to ignore the increasing demand for integrated song lyrics online and offline. To solve this problem, there has been a growing list of shareware developers who are creating plugins for the most popular mp3 player platforms that will allow users to import, save, organize and store song lyrics for most commercial music files on the web. The plugins are pretty easy to use and some like the lyric tracker plugin for iTunes are used by music lovers to create, and share the song lyrics on the most popular music software systems online.So how are the song lyrics getting into the system?Well, these applications are not merely reading the lyrics and scrolling them across the screen. Instead, the programs are designed to identify the song and title from an mp3 file and then find the lyrics on any one of the major lyrics search engines. It literally goes out, finds the song lyrics, and imports it into your mp3 player.What happens after that?It depends on the plugin and it depends on the mp3 player. Sometimes you can tag the lyrics and keep it organized so that it is always displayed when you play your tune. Other times, the lyrics disappear once the song is over and you have to start all over again. Another variable is the ability to print out the lyrics for your personal use.This also depends on the type of mp3 player that you are using the type of plugin whether it’s freeware or a professional application. In either case, the software should identity the source of the imported lyrics and you can go to the site and get a copy for yourself.About the AuthorThis article may be freely distributed as long as there's an active link to http://www.rapidlingo.comSyd JohnsonEditor ... Top Music Sites List goes online. Add your site or vote for your favoriteThe Top Music Sites List is live and ready for music site owners to start promoting their sites for free. The Top Music Sites and Songs Sites List includes music lyrics, music download, and listen to music sites. 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The Musicnotes Viewer automatically downloads in less than 10 seconds and allows musicians, educators and fans to instantly see, hear, and print free sheet music samples via the Internet. Customers can then purchase and download the entire piece of sheet music using a secure online commerce engine.The free Musicnotes Player enhances the shopping experience by allowing customers to interact with a selected piece of music. The music notation and lyrics light up in time with the music, synchronizing note-for-note with either a MIDI performance or a real performance played from a CD. The user can change the speed of the piece in order to practice at any pace. As an educational aid, every symbol on the music page is linked to a music encyclopedia which enables the user to select a symbol, such as a guitar bend, and specifically hear it or learn how to play it.Musicnotes.com's Founder, Thomas Hall, has developed and refined the technology over the past 18 years. While teaching at Princeton University, Hall created MusE, an electronic music engraving system that became the base technology for Musicnotes.com. In a pivotal development three years ago, Hall and co-founder Walter Burt created technology that was able to compress the digital files, including all the multimedia data that makes the music interactive, to a size that could be delivered rapidly over the Internet. Musicnotes.com has close contacts in the music publishing world and understands the critical role that copyright protection plays in the success of a music publisher. "We have a strong respect for the value of a copyright," remarks Kathleen Marsh, President of Musicnotes.com. "The technology that Tom and Walter developed has secure safeguards built-in through encryption codes, guaranteeing that all royalties will be paid directly to the appropriate people, both the creators and publishers of these pieces."The web site allows customers to browse or search by title, lyric, composer, keyword, arranger, artist/group, or by instrument. Christopher Parr, Vice President of Musicnotes.com, states, "Our goal ultimately is to have the world's most popular and interesting music digitized, catalogued and instantly available to every music maker that has access to the Internet."Additionally, if a customer can't find what they are looking for in digital format, Musicnotes.com provides an extensive selection of over 200,000 traditional music books and single sheets.For more information contact press@musicnotes.comOr visit http://www.musicnotes.comThis article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.How to Research Absolutely Anything How to Research Absolutely Anything Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP How to Research Absolutely Anything Author: Stephanie Cage Have you ever thought about writing non-fiction but been put off by the amount of research involved? Writing about what you know helps, as you’re likely to have the information you need at your fingertips, or at least know where to find it, but if you’re anything like me, you will still need to check up on a detail every so often. The truth is, research is hard to avoid. Even as a fiction writer, you will still need to check facts once in a while. It might be a historical detail (would your hero have been wearing a top hat or bowler?), a fact about a place or person, or even the lyrics of your heroine’s favourite song. Sometimes you can avoid the problem by being vague. Instead of naming the song, say, ‘He was humming that annoying tune again.’ If you don’t know exactly how big the boat was, say, ‘It was about the length of a swimming pool’. However, do this too often, and you lose the sense of reality, of a scene coming alive, that comes from a precisely imagined and described story world. So how do you go about finding the information you need to fill the gaps in your story or article? As a researcher, there are five main sources of information I turn to, roughly in this order:1 – Home reference books. Looking things up at home is quick and convenient, and a good encyclopaedia can fill in background information on a huge range of topics. However, it may not contain the specific information you’re looking for, and sometimes even if it contains the answer, it may be hard to find. For example, if you know want to find out more about Ellen MacArthur, it’s great, but it’s not much help if you can’t remember the surname of ‘that woman who sailed around the world – Ellen someone.’ 2 – The Internet The Internet is a great starting point if you can’t remember the exact details of what you’re looking for. Type ‘Ellen’ and ‘around the world sailing’ into Google and the odds are that sooner or later the name ‘MacArthur’ will crop up. It can be useful for tracking down poetry and song lyrics too, because it doesn’t matter if you can’t remember the title or first line – if it’s on the Internet, then typing any line into a search engine will help you track it down. 3 - Libraries If you can’t find what you need at home, in most cases the next stop will be your local library. They will have a wider range of reference books, as well as other subject-related books. For example, if you need to add colour to your novel about a woman sailor, you could look out for interesting details in a biography of Ellen MacArthur. If you’re really new to a subject, start from scratch with a child’s reference book. They’re often surprisingly informative as well as having lots of helpful illustrations. If your local library fails, you may have to resort to a larger library further afield – main copyright libraries have every book you could wish for, although it’s worth calling in advance to check that the book you’re looking for is immediately available. 4 - Tourist informationSometimes libraries aren’t much help because the information you’re looking for changes frequently. This is particularly true in travel writing, where you can end up looking foolish if a hotel or restaurant has closed down since your visit, or a museum or gallery has changed its opening hours. That’s when the area’s tourist information is invaluable. 5 - People If you haven’t found what you’re looking for using any of these methods, or if you want more details than the average reference book provides, you’ll need to look for someone in the know who can help you out. For general information, museum curators, gallery owners and librarians are often very helpful, but sometimes you’ll need something more specific. In that case, the best tactic can be to find an association related to the topic. If you want to find out about details of the Civil War for your battle scene, is there a re-enactment society near you? There’s bound to be someone who can answer your questions, and you might even get a chance to see the atmosphere of a Civil War battle for yourself and pick up some details you’d never have thought to ask about. Finally, if that fails, fall back on the theory that everyone on the planet is connected by just six links and ask everyone you know (work colleagues, fellow writers group members, friends and relatives) whether they know anyone who might be able to help you. Tell them it’s for a book (or magazine article, or whatever) and most people are glad to help – that’s the beauty of being a writer. About the AuthorStephanie Cage is a writer and researcher based in Berkshire, UK. She writes regularly for The Agony Column and newbooksmag and has also been published in e-Quip (the e-zine of the British Society of Comedy Writers) and Link (the magazine of the National Association of Writers’ Groups), where this article first appeared. Visit her at www.stephaniecage.co.uk ... Evanescence Song "My Immortal" Becomes All Time Best Selling Sheet Music Download at Musicnotes.comMadison, WI April 16, 2004 -- Musicnotes, Inc. announced that the Evanescence song "My Immortal," has become the company's all-time best selling sheet music download. Customers have downloaded over 7,000 copies of "My Immortal" since July of 2003. The song recently surpassed Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles," which was the previous all-time best seller for Musicnotes."Downloadable sheet music is still a relatively small part of the overall sheet music market, but it is an emerging market and definitely the future of the business," stated Kathleen Marsh, Musicnotes' CEO. "Despite low awareness of digital sheet music, 7,000 downloads of a single song is a very meaningful sales number even in the traditional print market. Our research tells us that digital delivery can dramatically expand the sheet music market, which will be good for consumers as well as music publishers and the songwriters they represent.""'My Immortal' is a very moving song that is certain to become our first 10,000 unit seller," stated Tim Reiland, Musicnotes' Chairman. "Interestingly, the song actually carries a premium price of $5.50 per download because the sheet-music is synchronized to the customer's CD. We have also mail-ordered a couple of hundred copies of 'My Immortal' at the traditional $3.95 price point, but our customers love the ability to get their sheet music instantly, and they are willing to pay for value-added features." About Musicnotes: Musicnotes, Inc. has an impressive catalog of 20,000 digital sheet music files that has been built on the strength of content agreements with Warner Bros. Publications, BMG, Peermusic, Famous Music, Zomba Music, Bug Music and several other music publishers. They also carry a complete catalog of over 260,000 mail-order items in their online catalog. The Musicnotes' multi-genre digital offering includes everything from Coldplay and Evanescence to George Gershwin and Beethoven.Media Contacts:Kathleen Marsh, CEOkmarsh@musicnotes.com or 608-662-1680 ext. 272Tim Reiland, Chairman and CFOtreiland@musicnotes.com or 414-745-4232Bill Aicher, Creative Directoraicher@musicnotes.com or 608-662-1680 ext. 277This article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.Where can I get song lyrics online Where can I get song lyrics online? Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP Where can I get song lyrics online? Author: Syd Johnson If you are downloading music online, eventually you’ll want some song lyrics to go with the mp3 files. It is very easy to find song lyrics online, but very difficult to get them integrated into your mp3 player software. Various copyright issues have forced many mp3 downloading services and mp3 player companies to ignore the increasing demand for integrated song lyrics online and offline. To solve this problem, there has been a growing list of shareware developers who are creating plugins for the most popular mp3 player platforms that will allow users to import, save, organize and store song lyrics for most commercial music files on the web. The plugins are pretty easy to use and some like the lyric tracker plugin for iTunes are used by music lovers to create, and share the song lyrics on the most popular music software systems online.So how are the song lyrics getting into the system?Well, these applications are not merely reading the lyrics and scrolling them across the screen. Instead, the programs are designed to identify the song and title from an mp3 file and then find the lyrics on any one of the major lyrics search engines. It literally goes out, finds the song lyrics, and imports it into your mp3 player.What happens after that?It depends on the plugin and it depends on the mp3 player. Sometimes you can tag the lyrics and keep it organized so that it is always displayed when you play your tune. Other times, the lyrics disappear once the song is over and you have to start all over again. Another variable is the ability to print out the lyrics for your personal use.This also depends on the type of mp3 player that you are using the type of plugin whether it’s freeware or a professional application. In either case, the software should identity the source of the imported lyrics and you can go to the site and get a copy for yourself.About the AuthorThis article may be freely distributed as long as there's an active link to http://www.rapidlingo.comSyd JohnsonEditor ... Play The Piano Like A Pro Play The Piano Like A Pro Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP Play The Piano Like A Pro Author: Ismael D. Tabije Meet the 12 Major Notes:1.C (do)2.C# - Db (do sharp or re flat) (one-key only)3.D (re)4.D# - Eb (re sharp or mi flat) (one key only)5.E (mi)6.F (fa)7.F# - Gb (fa sharp or so flat) (one key only)8.G(so)9.G# - Ab(so sharp or la flat) (one key only)10.A (la)11.A# - Bb(la sharp or ti flat)12.B (ti)Meet the 12 Major Chords:1.C major - do, mi, so {C, E, G keys}2.D major - re, fa#, la {D, F#, A keys}3.E major - mi, so#, ti{E, G#, B keys}4.F major - (lower) fa, (lower) la, (middle) do{F, A, C keys}5.G major - (lower) so, (lower) ti, (middle) re{G, B, D keys}6.A major - (lower) la, (middle) do#, (middle) mi {A, C#, E keys}7.B major - (lower) ti, (middle)re#, (middle) fa# {B, D#, F# keys}8.C# or Db - do#, fa, so# {C#, F, G# keys} 9.D# or Eb - re#, so, la# {D#, G, A# keys}10.F# or Gb - (lower) fa#, (lower) la#, (middle) do# {F#, A#, D# keys}11.G# or Ab - (lower) so#, (middle) do, (middle) re# {G#, C, D# keys}12.A# or Bb - (lower) tib, (middle) re, (middle) fa {Bb, D, F keys}Notes some one of the most important things to learn and digest when it comes to learning music. The foundation of every tune is the note. This is also what makes the music lesson quite difficult to learn. It is because music is another language. There are lots of music notes to memorize. However, there are some techniques to better understand and not just to memorize the notes then eventually digest all of them. The first technique is to know the first twelve (12) major notes. Enumerated above are the twelve major notes. Most of us have encountered the do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti notes in the early stage of our education. Whether we liked it or not, music has always been a part of the academe. The alphabet notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B are also used along with the do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti notes. However, most people especially those who are not totally musically inclined are more familiar with the latter. Also enumerated above are the 12 major chords. These are the most important chords to be first learned in learning how to play the piano. These piano chords correspond to those chords used in playing the guitar. So it is possible for you to play your favorite songs in both the guitar and the piano. Just like in learning how to play the guitar, all you need is to memorize the chords and the proper position of your fingers. There are 12 major chords enumerated above along with the keys that are to be pressed to form each chord. There are actually many more chords and they are quite difficult to memorize and retain at once. Aside from being the major chords, these 12 are the easiest to memorize and remember. All the other chords may sound so complicated in names but in reality, they are just repetitions or variations of the major chords. The first and foremost thing to remember is the middle C and its location because it is where the other notes are based. The variations of chords are the minor chords, the dominant seventh, augmented fifth, the diminished seventh, minor seventh, dominant ninth, major sixth, major seventh, minor sixth, dominant seventh with augmented fifth, dominant seventh with lowered fifth. Each major chord has these twelve more variations. Notice that the 12 major chords take only three fingers to form. The other variations can include four and even five fingers but still play around the major chord. Some song lyrics have major or minor chords only. In practicing, especially for beginners, it is better to start with songs with simple chords first. The technique is to memorize the twelve major notes and then the twelve major chords and then get acquainted with the variations. In no time, you can play any songs and the "used-to-be-complicated" chords wouldn't appear complicated anymore. About the AuthorThe writer, Ismael D. Tabije, runs the website http://pianos.e-mart4all.com that markets a wide choice of high-quality digital pianos and accessories at the lowest prices in the online market. Brands sold include Casio, Yamaha, Korg, Kurzweil and Roland. The website also features interesting piano articles about piano humor, trivia, myths and facts and even piano lessons and instructions. ... New Website Offers Free Internet Publishing of Sheet Music and Literary WorksMarch 11, 2004 -- dorm40music.com announces the launch of their new website http://www.dorm40music.com. This site will give musicians the ability to sell sheet music of their compositions and arrangements on the internet. All types of music will be accepted, including songs, opera, orchestra, chamber ensemble, band, choir, solo instruments and more. The site will also give writers the ability to sell their literary works on the internet, including novels, poetry, articles, journals, short stories and more.Musicians and writers post their works to the site for free and set the price for the sale of each work. dorm40music.com pays the musician or writer a royalty for each work sold. Ownership rights of all works remain that of the musician or writer. All works submitted must conform to applicable copyright law in the United States.Musicians can also post a MIDI or WMA "playback" file of their works. As a result, buyers will be able to see a sample page of each score and hear a recording of the composition or arrangement before they buy it. "The ability to both see and hear to the music prior to purchase is a powerful marketing tool" say Craig Garner and Michael Zavoski of dorm40music.com. Buyers are happier with their purchases and they tend to buy more when they know what they're getting.The site also allows musicians and writers to post biographies of themselves as well ascustomized descriptions of each work. Another feature of the site is the events calendar. This free service allows musicians andwriters to post upcoming concerts, readings, recitals or other events which spotlightthemselves or their organization. Posting may include poetry readings, band concerts,performance by a church choir, a brass quintet recital or a new composers concert at the local college.Currently, music can be posted on dorm40music.com using only FINALE (.mus) or PDF files. Literary works must be submitted using WORD or PDF files. Information is available at customersupport@dorm40music.comThis article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.Exercises For Your Fingers Basic Piano DrillsEvanescence Song "My Immortal" Becomes All Time Best Selling Sheet Music Download at Musicnotes.comE-Books Meet Sheet Music: Musicnotes.com Thrives in Dreary Dot Com ClimateMusic Forte Inc. Presents 60,000 Hard-Copy Song Books and Sheet MusicCHICAGO, IL August 29, 2004 -- Music Forte Inc. welcomes Hal Leonard, the world's largest music print publisher, to their online storefront (www.musicforte.net.) MusicForte.net is elated to provide hard copies of 60,000 titles in sheet music and songbooks. In a world that is becoming more digital, printing sheet music from home computers has taken a more prominent role - but will it succeed? MusicForte.net prefers the "old-fashioned" way.Chicagoan Greg Percifield (CEO of Music Forte Inc.), has played piano since childhood. "In those days, I'd ride my bicycle down the block to the nearest music store and search through the archives of my favorite artist. It was thrilling to take home an authentic publication. In fact, I still have them - almost 30 years later!" Today, that excitement is a rarity. Online music storefronts are switching to "instant printing" methods. These new publishing outlets believe that the consumer would prefer to save a dollar and some time, by printing their music from their home computers - instantly."Having recently purchased a digital print of Bruce Hornsby's ‘Mandolin Rain,' I'll admit that I was impressed when the music was in my hands in less than five minutes. The results, however, were extremely disappointing," says Greg. For many people, their archives of hard-copy sheet music still remain in nice condition, proudly displayed on their piano's music stand. Hard copy sheet music often displays pictures of the artist, with the titles formatted just as they appear on album sleeves, cassette tapes, CDs, and DVDs. One thing is for sure, it is authentic. That is why people handle it with care. They want to keep it. It is memorabilia. Just as readers are proud of the books they store in their bookshelves, many musicians feel the same pride about their hard copy music."As for my digitally-printed score, the thin paper has already been scattered about. A phone number has been scribbled on the back, treated like regular scrap paper. The only sure way to keep it organized is with a staple in the top-left corner." It's no surprise that these digital outlet stores cannot provide complete songbooks. The result would be nothing short of disastrous.Music Forte Inc. is proud of the music they provide, and you should be too. Come browse our shop of over 60,000 hard-copy publications in sheet music and songbooks (www.musicforte.net.) About Music Forte, Inc. Founded in 2003, Music Forte Inc. (www.musicforte.net ) provides musician services ranging from introductions to clients for the commercial jingle industry, CD promotion, and now is a leader in hard copy sales, providing songbooks, sheet music, educational publications, reference books, videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs, children's music products and more. The online storefront represents in print some of the world's best known and most respected publishers, artists, writers and arrangers. Music Forte Inc. is headquartered in Chicagoland's Naperville, IL and also has an office in Scottsdale, AZ.This article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.From Jewel To Santana: Musicnotes.com Launches New Digital Sheet Music SiteMADISON, WI – July 14, 2000 - Musicnotes.com, an online sheet music store where customers can download digital sheet music immediately or order traditional music books, has launched a redesigned site and is entering into a partnership with HarmonyCentral.Musicnotes.com quietly opened their doors in October 1999. "It was a soft launch," said Kathleen Marsh, Musicnotes.com President. "Our goal was to watch customer feedback and see how they interact with our technology." Over the past four months, the site has been completely revamped: faster, no frames, easier to use, and an improved search functionality. In addition, the commerce and check-out pages have been streamlined. "It is a much easier shopping experience," adds Christopher Parr, Musicnotes.com Vice President of Creative and Marketing, who developed the new design and strategy for Musicnotes.com."Musicnotes.com is a true e-commerce company, unlike the other dot coms," said Parr. "Honestly, it's easier to pick a shirt or toy up at the mall than ordering online and waiting a few days for the UPS truck to show up. Musicnotes.com, on the other hand, delivers instant gratification as customers receive their favorite sheet music immediately. Our goal was to create a user-friendly site that evolves around the customer and encourages interaction with our digital product."The new site contains more than ten thousand pieces of digital sheet music from Warner Bros. Publications and Mel Bay Publications, with many titles from other publishers coming soon. In addition to the instant delivery of digital sheet music, the site also offers "music books & more," a catalog of more than two hundred thousand traditional music titles, CDs and videos from Warner Bros., Hal Leonard, Mel Bay, Alfred Publishing Co., Music Sales Corporation and others.The Musicnotes.com catalog will also be available soon on a co-branded, customized site developed for HarmonyCentral, the largest musician community on the web."We're thrilled to join Musicnotes.com in this momentous partnership," said Ray Campbell, CEO of HarmonyCentral. "We've become the world's largest musician community through providing exceptional services and experiences to our users. This agreement allows us to continue doing exactly that with a key industry service leader. It's a natural fit, and as musicians ourselves, we couldn't be more pleased."Harmony Central will feature links from their site to the Musicnotes.com/HarmonyCentral co-branded website. Members of the Harmony Central community can browse and search the full Musicnotes.com line of sheet music and music books, never straying more than a click away from HarmonyCentral. "The relationship is a natural," added Marsh, "since the overwhelming majority of HarmonyCentral visitors are active players." Of the 1,500,000 unique monthly visitors to HarmonyCentral, 69.3% write songs, 58% play in a band, and over 34% take or teach music lessons. Nearly 90% of HarmonyCentral visitors describe themselves as amateur or professional musicians.About Musicnotes.comMusicnotes.com was founded in 1998 as a publisher of electronic editions of the entire spectrum of published music, from classical to standards to current hits. All Musicnotes.com digital sheet music is copyright-cleared and completely legal. Musicnotes.com works with print publishers such as Warner Bros. and Mel Bay to take what they publish in ink on paper onto the web in a publication-quality, instantly-downloadable form. Musicnotes.com files are tiny and easy to download, and can be viewed directly within a web page. The Musicnotes.com proprietary technology is based on MusE, an award-winning music engraving system under continuous development since 1979. In 1980, MusE was used to publish the first-ever edition of music produced entirely on a computer.About HarmonyCentralHarmonyCentral went live from an MIT dorm room in 1994, and now has more than 14 million monthly page views. In 1999, HarmonyCentral merged with music gear e-tailer zZounds.com to form HarmonyCentral.com. The combined sites have over 15,000 pages of content. The sites operate independently under the parent corporation of HarmonyCentral.Inc. Vulcan Ventures, Inc., the investment organization of Paul G. Allen, provided lead funding. Also participating in the first funding round were Zilkha Venture Partners and several angel investors.For more information about Musicnotes.com, contact:Kathleen Marsh, Presidentkmarsh@musicnotes.com Phone: 608-836-9000 Fax: 608-831-8200For more information about HarmonyCentral.com, contact:Mary Stevens, Director of Marketing Communicationsmary@harmony-central.com Phone: 650-812-7647 Fax: 650-812-7644This article courtesy of http://sheetmusicinfosite.com.You may freely reprint this article on your website or in your newsletter provided this courtesy notice and the author name and URL remain intact.E-Books Meet Sheet Music: Musicnotes.com Thrives in Dreary Dot Com ClimateCan you get accurate christian music lyrics with yCan you find good gospel song lyrics onlineExercises For Your Fingers Basic Piano DrillsCan you get accurate christian music lyrics with yHow to Research Absolutely Anything How to Research Absolutely Anything Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP How to Research Absolutely Anything Author: Stephanie Cage Have you ever thought about writing non-fiction but been put off by the amount of research involved? Writing about what you know helps, as you’re likely to have the information you need at your fingertips, or at least know where to find it, but if you’re anything like me, you will still need to check up on a detail every so often. The truth is, research is hard to avoid. Even as a fiction writer, you will still need to check facts once in a while. It might be a historical detail (would your hero have been wearing a top hat or bowler?), a fact about a place or person, or even the lyrics of your heroine’s favourite song. Sometimes you can avoid the problem by being vague. Instead of naming the song, say, ‘He was humming that annoying tune again.’ If you don’t know exactly how big the boat was, say, ‘It was about the length of a swimming pool’. However, do this too often, and you lose the sense of reality, of a scene coming alive, that comes from a precisely imagined and described story world. So how do you go about finding the information you need to fill the gaps in your story or article? As a researcher, there are five main sources of information I turn to, roughly in this order:1 – Home reference books. Looking things up at home is quick and convenient, and a good encyclopaedia can fill in background information on a huge range of topics. However, it may not contain the specific information you’re looking for, and sometimes even if it contains the answer, it may be hard to find. For example, if you know want to find out more about Ellen MacArthur, it’s great, but it’s not much help if you can’t remember the surname of ‘that woman who sailed around the world – Ellen someone.’ 2 – The Internet The Internet is a great starting point if you can’t remember the exact details of what you’re looking for. Type ‘Ellen’ and ‘around the world sailing’ into Google and the odds are that sooner or later the name ‘MacArthur’ will crop up. It can be useful for tracking down poetry and song lyrics too, because it doesn’t matter if you can’t remember the title or first line – if it’s on the Internet, then typing any line into a search engine will help you track it down. 3 - Libraries If you can’t find what you need at home, in most cases the next stop will be your local library. They will have a wider range of reference books, as well as other subject-related books. For example, if you need to add colour to your novel about a woman sailor, you could look out for interesting details in a biography of Ellen MacArthur. If you’re really new to a subject, start from scratch with a child’s reference book. They’re often surprisingly informative as well as having lots of helpful illustrations. If your local library fails, you may have to resort to a larger library further afield – main copyright libraries have every book you could wish for, although it’s worth calling in advance to check that the book you’re looking for is immediately available. 4 - Tourist informationSometimes libraries aren’t much help because the information you’re looking for changes frequently. This is particularly true in travel writing, where you can end up looking foolish if a hotel or restaurant has closed down since your visit, or a museum or gallery has changed its opening hours. That’s when the area’s tourist information is invaluable. 5 - People If you haven’t found what you’re looking for using any of these methods, or if you want more details than the average reference book provides, you’ll need to look for someone in the know who can help you out. For general information, museum curators, gallery owners and librarians are often very helpful, but sometimes you’ll need something more specific. In that case, the best tactic can be to find an association related to the topic. If you want to find out about details of the Civil War for your battle scene, is there a re-enactment society near you? There’s bound to be someone who can answer your questions, and you might even get a chance to see the atmosphere of a Civil War battle for yourself and pick up some details you’d never have thought to ask about. Finally, if that fails, fall back on the theory that everyone on the planet is connected by just six links and ask everyone you know (work colleagues, fellow writers group members, friends and relatives) whether they know anyone who might be able to help you. Tell them it’s for a book (or magazine article, or whatever) and most people are glad to help – that’s the beauty of being a writer. About the AuthorStephanie Cage is a writer and researcher based in Berkshire, UK. She writes regularly for The Agony Column and newbooksmag and has also been published in e-Quip (the e-zine of the British Society of Comedy Writers) and Link (the magazine of the National Association of Writers’ Groups), where this article first appeared. Visit her at www.stephaniecage.co.uk ... Exercises For Your Fingers Basic Piano DrillsEvanescence Song "My Immortal" Becomes All Time Best Selling Sheet Music Download at Musicnotes.comBasic Piano Drills Exercises For Your FingersHow to Research Absolutely Anything How to Research Absolutely Anything Song+lyrics Back To Snippet Back To SITEMAP How to Research Absolutely Anything Author: Stephanie Cage Have you ever thought about writing non-fiction but been put off by the amount of research involved? Writing about what you know helps, as you’re likely to have the information you need at your fingertips, or at least know where to find it, but if you’re anything like me, you will still need to check up on a detail every so often. The truth is, research is hard to avoid. Even as a fiction writer, you will still need to check facts once in a while. It might be a historical detail (would your hero have been wearing a top hat or bowler?), a fact about a place or person, or even the lyrics of your heroine’s favourite song. Sometimes you can avoid the problem by being vague. Instead of naming the song, say, ‘He was humming that annoying tune again.’ If you don’t know exactly how big the boat was, say, ‘It was about the length of a swimming pool’. However, do this too often, and you lose the sense of reality, of a scene coming alive, that comes from a precisely imagined and described story world. So how do you go about finding the information you need to fill the gaps in your story or article? As a researcher, there are five main sources of information I turn to, roughly in this order:1 – Home reference books. Looking things up at home is quick and convenient, and a good encyclopaedia can fill in background information on a huge range of topics. However, it may not contain the specific information you’re looking for, and sometimes even if it contains the answer, it may be hard to find. For example, if you know want to find out more about Ellen MacArthur, it’s great, but it’s not much help if yo Post Comment
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