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Jon Boyes -> RE: Transcriptions (Feb. 11 2004 8:11:18)
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ORIGINAL: Florian
Jon so far good i can live with some of the points you made but you still havent adressed one issue :)
The fact that he is acctualy ripping off the artist by transcribing his material without his permission and without giving him a fair share of the profit.
OK, on the face of it, that is of course wrong Florian. I didn't address that because its hearsay. I am sure that Dave is right in what he said - that Riqueni was suprised to see a transcriptionof his work in print, but without knowing the full details of that case we cannot argue the rights or wrongs, because we are just guessing as to what actually happened, both then and afterwards. This is a complex area of law and I am only skimming the surface.
But I do know this - Faucher now works WITH the guitarists concerned on his books, they are credited and thanked for their input in the foreword (at least, Moraito is and its my understanding that the others are also.)
I suppose the reason I get worked up about this is really the lack of quality material on the market. Compare flamenco with classical guitar, or rock guitar for example, where there are thousands of skilled transcribers working in the industry and publishing transcriptions for people to learn from.
Few music transcribers understand flamenco well enough to transcribe it adequately, which makes it harder for people like us to get access to learning material. The fact that it is handed down from one generation to the next, with no need to read music, means that people like Faucher are in a tiny minority. I want to see him continue to publish quality work, and I want to see him have competition from other skilled transcribers, who emerge *because there is a market*.
This is why I believe the wholesale copying of his works and putting them on are website are a bad idea, in the long run, for all of us learning flamenco. Compared to just about any other guitar style I can think of, the published repertoire in flamenco is tiny and still in its infancy.
Jon
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