If you would like any of this music arranged for your marching band, don't hesitate to contact me. ![]() To that end, I have compiled a list of Public Domain music that would be suitable for a marching show. It is always a good idea to double check any music you wish to have arranged, because copyright infringements can be a very serious matter, with legal and financial repercussions. Some things that people consider to be in the Public Domain actually are not, for example, Orff's Carmina Burana and Bernstein's West Side Story are two works that are guarded stringently by the estates of their creators, and are most definitely NOT in the Public Domain. But that fee only pays for the right to arrange if you should ever want to record your work, you would need a separate license fee. ![]() Typically, if the work is still under copyright law, you have to contact the copyright holder, secure permission to arrange (and in some rare cases, composers and publishers are not willing to give that permission), and pay a fee for the right to arrange. What does this mean for you, the band director looking for show ideas? It means that you can commission someone to arrange a marching band show for you that uses music from before 1926.without paying a dime in copyright fees. ![]() Music that was written prior to 1926 has, in most cases, entered the Public Domain.
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