Highway Robbery

I am in complete agreement with composer Roger Bourland on the subject of expensive music textbooks:

The prices publishers are charging for slim music theory text books is beyond rationalization. I am thrilled to see more and more public domain scans of traditional music, and professorial blogs and websites and webpages available on the internet that explain the issues perfectly well, and are free, or sometimes for a reasonable subscription fee.

Many of our students are “digital natives” and would really prefer their music library to be available on their laptops as PDFs. Many of the resources have music available as not only PDFs, but mp3s of General MIDI playback; mp3s of historic performances; and files that can be imported into Finale or Sibelius that can be printed as a score, or reorchestrated, or played back as MIDI files.

More here.

Note: This post appeared briefly on Thursday (it was a mistake).