35:The Great Libretto Debate

Classical musicians are expected to maintain a fairly well stocked personal music library in order to be prepared to perform much of the standar repertoire. 

For young musicians and music students, the expense of sheet music, scores, anthologies, and librettos quickly adds up and becomes a force of exclusion in classical music. Which has lead to the creation and sharing of online drives filled with scanned sheet music, some of which is Public Domain and others which are still under copyright.

This has lead to a serious debate within music circles on the ethics of these drives. Classical music has a serious classism issue, so isn't it our job to make music more accessible? Do these drives hurt musicians in the publishing industry like composers, musicologists, and arrangers? How do we fight bad publishing practices without hurting the preservation of music?

While there is no easy answer, today we take you through the Great Libretto Debate, so join us as we discuss the arguments and options and come up with a few solutions of our own.

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