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Oxford University is considering proposals that would remove sheet music from its curriculum over claims that the Western form of musical notation has roots in “colonialism” and “complicity in white supremacy”. In response to widespread Black Lives Matter riots in the United Kingdom, music educators at Oxford have joined the wider iconoclastic movement which has been sweeping through British academia. The music department at the prestigious and ancient university has seen calls to remove music notation from the curriculum as professors seek to focus less on white European heritage and culture. The woke educators went on to claim that musical...

Owner: Dwindling sales kill Frank Music Company NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —Even the home to Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic isn't immune to the realities of the digital age of music. Frank Music Company, New York City's last remaining store dedicated to selling classical sheet music, closed on Friday. Frank's customers, a community of artists dedicated to playing music written with quills centuries ago, must now buy them online or download PDFs.The store's owner, Heidi Rogers, said dwindling sales killed the shop."Musicians are underpaid," she said. "How can they buy music if they're not getting paid enough?"Why would a...

The supplied files are my arrangement of Gustav Holst's "In the Bleak Midwinter" arranged for four octaves of either handbells or handchimes. It is supplied here for use in the 2005 Christmas season. I may render it fully into the public domain but do not do so at this time. Performance Notes: The four supplied pages are formatted to be printed as two pairs of facing pages (e.g. as pages 2 through 5 of a six-page leaflet). If they are printed in this way, there will be no annoying page turns. The music is set according to the four verses...