Ordering

How the ordering works

Unlike the commercial publishers, I do not generally sell multiple copies of my music.  That would require my going to the post office, for which  there is a $200 surcharge.  I'd prefer to send you a single digital copy (and okay, if you don't do digital I will use snail mail) along with my blessing to make the stipulated number of copies for your choir or congregation.   You then pinky-promise to send me a check.  This arrangement allows speedy (same- or next-day) delivery of your music and assures that your dollars are spent not to pad the pockets of PayPal execs but to keep me and my family solidly in the lower middle-class.

What you are buying is one of the following:

· Choral License:  This is the most common and applies to virtually all choral titles.  You pay per copy (usually $1.50) for permission to make your required number of copies.  You can then do with you them whatever you would any published, copyrighted music octavos:  use them as often as you like, lend them to the Methodists down the street.  I ask only that neither you (nor the Methodists) make additional copies without permission.

· Reprint License:  This one applies primarily to congregational music.  You pay a flat fee (usually $30) for permission to make as many copies as often as you like—for your bulletins, songbooks, to wrap hamburger in, etc. I  do ask that your copies carry the full copyright notice and, in this case, that you keep them away from the Methodists.

·      One-Time Use License: This is what you need for a conference or workshop lasting 1-3 days.  My rates are those of the major licensing organizations and depend on the number of attendees expected.  Contact me.

· Mechanical License:  This is the permission to record a piece as part of a CD or DVD that you intend to sell.  For simplicity, I use the statutory rates provided for in the US copyright law. Contact me for the specifics of that law (and I’ll try to figure it out).