MOST IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT YET
As of 3PM EST today, all sheet music links will be taken down.
This includes any ask that was answered with links, and the sheet music masterpost. As far as I know, there is no way to stop it circulating around tumblr and for that I am very sorry, but it will not be on the blog any longer.
We will be continuing as an audition advice/song/monologue blog, so you can still send messages about auditions. Any messages from now on requesting sheet music will be deleted. The URL of the blog is being changed to “theatre-audition-help”.
Some questions you may have:
Why?
A multitude of reasons. I’ve sort of hated myself for running this blog for about a year because I am becoming a composer/lyricist of my own musicals, and I know I would hate the idea of someone giving away my sheet music for free when I worked hard to write it and deserve money for it.
But now has created the perfect opportunity to actually get rid of it, because I’ve been caught by the NPMA. NPMA is the National Music Publisher’s Association, and from what I know they are a sort of conglomerate of some of the big publishers (Alfred’s, Hal Leonard, etc). They’ve been kind enough to message me requesting that all links be taken down, which is much less scary than my constant nightmare of the FBI breaking down my door and arresting me for piracy and throwing me in jail for 9 years, leaving me unable to finish high school and go to college and start my work as a theatre/psychology major using theatre and music to educate the world on mental illness through plays, seminars, and drama therapy.
But overall, piracy is bad and I’ve railed against bootlegs nonstop for two years and been a huge hypocrite so now I can stop that. The composers deserve every cent from each person who likes their music enough to buy the sheet music.
Where will the sheet music go?
Well some of the links I had were directing to other sites, and I have no idea what fate awaits those websites but probably a similar one to my own. The rest of the links were uploads that I made after scanning my own sheet music, and those will disappear and the hard copies will continue to reside above my piano on various shelves, because I bought them in their original format.
Where can I get sheet music now?
Your local music store, preferably, or Amazon.com, or online sites that you can pay a few dollars to download the music in pdf format; anywhere that your money is going to the composer. I suggest music store though because apparently the one near me is starting to die out and music stores should never die out so please keep your local music store in business. I know money is scarce for some people but it’s not that much, and if it is too much money for you to spend, best not buy it at all because sheet music is not a necessity.
Can I copy the entire sheet music post now and repost it on my own blog?
No. Please please do not do this. I am taking this down not only because I have been told to by the NMPA but also because it is wrong. So please don’t repost it, I want it gone.
Is there someone to be angry at?
No. We are following copyright laws, and copyright laws are there to protect the artist.
Will I be in trouble for downloading the sheet music?
No. I’m not an expert on copyright law, but no one is at fault here but me and I will make sure of that. You are not going to get in trouble for having downloaded sheet music in the past.
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That is all. Thank you all for supporting me in this blog and I’m sorry to do this.
-Adelaide