After several years of using CPDL church music scores, I'd like to try my hand submitting something back.
I've had a few scans through the forums, and I'm not sure how to handle my first submission.
First a bit of history. Some time ago, I used Michael Wendel's arrangement of the Morales Magnificat Quarti Toni "Et Exultavit" http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Magn ... Morales%29 with my choir at an Evensong. We needed a Nunc Dimittis to go with it. What I did at the time was to take the Magnificat Quarti Toni "Anima Mea" and arrange three of the sections to give us a passable Nunc Dimittis in the same mode, and with music by the same composer.
We're doing the same combination again in a couple of weeks. Following that I'll have (hopefully) ironed out the bugs in the Nunc Dimittis, and I'd like to release it on CPDL under the same licence as Michael Wendel's Magnificat. The hope is that with a combined Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis available, choirs will be encouraged to perform Morales as part of an Evensong.
So what I'll have is a piece written by Morales, but with completely different words and substantially re-arranged.
I'd seem to have the following options :-
- Do I publish it as a variant of the Magnificat "Anima Mea", despite it not being a Magnificat?
- Do I publish it as a Morales "Nunc Dimittis", even though Morales (as far as I know) wrote no such piece?