that reminds me of the Kentucky Waltz," then I wouldn't rename it. If a person like that says "Hey, isn't that the Kentucky Waltz?" or they say "Hmmm. These tunes can drift quite a bit, according to local practice and handed-down-ness, and still be recognizable to people who live with the music. the only thing that matters is whether you've altered the original tune enough that someone steeped in the tradition of the genre you're playing recognizes the source material, or not. If someone knows how this story actually goes and can tell it better, please do! Anyway, I'm not sure what the burden of proof is in cases like these, proving authorship and plagiarism, but it's smaller than one might think. Something happened years later - maybe there was a falling out - and someone at Fox changed the theme just slightly so his authorship was no longer valid. I heard Randy Newman tell the story of how his uncle Lionel, a big deal in the music department at 20th Century Fox, wrote the company's theme, the one that plays before all their movies. I am a little fuzzy on the facts here, but I beleve the gist is correct. I also think the brownie points you're going to get from your wife for naming a tune for her far outweigh any downside that I can see. That is, there is no intention to defraud. It would be different if you were to intentionally change a note or two or a few and then try to pass it off as your own - but that's not the case here. (These last two conditions appeared in the recent thread about "Tam Lin." Given these variables, I think you're off the hook. There are a lot of tunes that have more than one name. There are a lot of tunes with the same name but are different. There are a lot of tunes that sound similar to others. It's really kind of a philosophical question I'm asking. I also don't record youtubes, so I probably won't be playing it for you to judge.
#Martin mpc rename professional
I'm not a professional performer and am not going to sell it or anything so copyright is not an issue.
Some traditional tunes have many names, some classical composers borrow traditional songs and work them into their own work with their own names. How much can you change it and still have the same song, how much do you have to change it to make it a different song? Etc.
Her dad used to call her Janie, so I started calling my version Janie's Waltz. It's only instrumental - mandolin - I do not sing. It does have some parts of the standard version in it, some similar to other parts, etc. It turned out quite nice to my ears, but also quite different from the standard. So I gave up and sat down one day while my wife was gone and struggled to learn to play the version in my head.
It kept conflicting with the version playing in my head. I downloaded the music from somewhere but it never sounded right. Instead the very nice rendition morphed into something quite different.Īfter a while I decided to try and learn the song. I also figured it would go away eventually, to be replaced with another. So at first when KW got stuck in my head I thought it would get annoying. I usually hear the exact recording that I heard the first time. ( ) I get songs stuck in my head not just simple earworms, there is always one playing. BASS library support (OGG, WAV, FLAC, AAC, MP4, CD.Anyone who knows of my pathetic skills will be surprised at this question.Ībout a year ago I stumbled across a guy doing a very nice solo rendition of Kentucky Waltz.