Selling Sheet Music

A podcast-sized reading session of three new works by Garrett Breeze featured in the 2024 JW Pepper Editor's Choice Catalog.

⁠Aloha⁠

⁠Call of a Warrior⁠

⁠Tiny Voice⁠

Dr. Rob Deemer is head of composition at the State University of New York at Fredonia and the creator of the Institute for Composer Diversity.  We had a great conversation about learning to compose, presenting your music in an effective way, and many of the trends happening in composition today, including the relationship between composers and ensembles, as well as issues of diversity and inclusion in programming.

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Today’s guest is Philedelphia based composer Melissa Dunphy.  She is an award winning composer of vocal, chamber, and choral music, and is involved in many different initiatives advancing and advocating for the needs of composers and artists, as well as, believe it or not, arcaheology. 

Our conversation was a little bit all over the map but kept coming back to this idea of things composers don’t get taught in school that they need to know.  

Google results for Melissa will turn up many other video and podcast appearances where she shares invaluable information for composers and I’m very grateful to now add this episode to the list and be sure to stick around to the end of the episode to hear two examples of her recent work.

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**This update was recorded Aug 27, and includes important new information announced after the original episode aired.**

The music world was rocked yesterday by the shock announcement that Finale Notation Software had been officially discontinued. This special episode addresses what happened and the steps composers need to take to safeguard their Finale files.

Recommended Reading:

The music world was rocked yesterday by the shock announcement that Finale Notation Software had been officially discontinued. This special episode addresses what happened and the steps composers need to take to safeguard their Finale files.

Recommended Reading:

Today’s guest is Brittain Ashford, executive director of the Music Publishers Association, a trade organization focused on education and advocacy of issues pertaining to music publishing and print music.  Their website, mpa.org has a wealth of free information and resources pertaining to copyright as well as information about their partnerships with other music organizations.  We had a great conversation about the work of the MPA, the things self publishers need to know about copyright, and the massive debt we, as a society, owe to the player piano.

Copyright Resources for Music Educators

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Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sellingsheetmusic.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for episode transcripts and additional resources for publishers and composers.

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Known as the Father of Contemporary Acappella, Deke Sharon is the man responsible for bringing contemporary a cappella music into the mainstream.  Perhaps best known as the music producer for the Pitch Perfect Trilogy and NBC’s The Sing Off, which launched the career of the now multi-platinum Grammy winning group Pentatonix.

He has also written more than 2,000 a cappella arrangements and created many of the organizations that are fundamental to contemporary a cappella today.

Click HERE and use the code “4S24ACAPELLA” to get 30% off Deke's newest book: A Cappella Arranging 2.0

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Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sellingsheetmusic.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for episode transcripts and additional resources for publishers and composers.

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Quick Tip #18: Separate Your B2B Marketing and Your B2C Marketing

The past two years have seen enormous growth and development at ArrangeMe, and today on the show Scott Harris is here to break it all down and talk about the future of the program. We hit all the big topics: the acquisition of Hal Leonard by Muse Group, the expanded distribution of ArrangeMe titles through the Pass Program, the redesign of the Sheet Music Plus website, Artificial Intelligence, and much more!

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Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sellingsheetmusic.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for episode transcripts and additional resources for publishers and composers.

Subscribe to Garrett Breeze on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for video versions of the podcast.