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1) "But as I’ve grumbled before, what is regrettable is that it’s still apparently impossible to include music examples in books of this sort. Why is the follo

1) "But as I’ve grumbled before, what is regrettable is that it’s still apparently impossible to include music examples in books of this sort. Why is the following sentence (about a piano ‘Image’) any more accessible than a simple music example? ... Serious, careful and readable writers like Walsh are not helped by this publishing restriction." The images are public domain and available freely on the internet: http://imslp.org/wiki/Images,_1ere_s%C3%A9rie_(Debussy,_Claude) http://imslp.org/wiki/Images,_1ere_s%C3%A9rie_(Debussy,_Clau... So...not sure this is a publishing restriction so much as an author choice -- though I'd imagine that a lot of people who read a Debussy biography can read a piano score, and I agree, it would be nice to include excerpts. 2) His string quartet is magical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNxVfv_1LIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNxVfv_1LIA 3) wow is the Spectator a pretty bad mobile reading experience

Mediterraneo10 9y ago
> So...not sure this is a publishing restriction so much as an author choice It’s not an author choice, it’s a publisher choice. More than one author of a book on classical music has complained in recent years of being unable to include examples from the score in a general-audience work because the publisher thought it would scare potential readers away. You and me might think that a reader incapable of reading music might simply ignore such score examples and continue reading, but publishers fear that the mere presence of a score example would make the book seem to highfalutin’ for most audiences.
- setgree 9y ago
  Interesting -- source for this claim? Not finding anything to this effect in a quick google...