Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Week of 28 December 2015

29 December 2015
          While working on back-list restorations today, I started new engravings for Robert Manookin’s choral setting of Beautiful Savior. It hasn't sold well, but it is an important part of his history, and I have decided not to let it go to “download only”. He wrote the arrangement in response to an invitation from Jerold Ottley and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s. It is chromatic and a bit challenging to the ear—probably one of the first in that series. He mellowed greatly later on—calling the process ”repentance.”

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Current Needs

Jackman Music Corporation
2015 Manuscript Submission Schedule

Deadline: January 12, 2015
1.           Hymn Arrangement - Meditation
2.           Hymn Arrangement - SAB
3.           Hymn Arrangement - SSA
4.          Hymn Medley - SAB
5.          Hymn Opener - SATB (Stake Conference)
6.           Original Sacred - 2 Part
7.           Original Sacred - SAB
8.           Original Sacred - SATB
9.           Original Sacred (Women's Chorus)
10.       Original Sacred  (Men's Chorus)

Deadline: April 12, 2015
11.       Christmas Cantata - 25 minutes in length
12.       Christmas Carol Arrangement - SAB
13.       Christmas Carol Arrangement - SAB
14.       Christmas Carol Arrangement - SSA
15.       Christmas Carol Medley
16.       Christmas Opener - SATB
17.       Christmas Original - SA
18.       Christmas Original - SAB
19.       Christmas Original - SATB
20.       Christmas Original - SATB
21.       Thanksgiving Meditation - SAB
22.       Thanksgiving Opener - SATB
23.       Christmas Original or Arrangement (Men's Chorus)

Deadline: June 12, 2015
24.       R.S. Birthday Celebration - SSA
25.       Stake Conference - Faith, Scripture based, Prayer, Trust

Deadline: October 5, 2015
26.           Easter Medley (or Hymn Arrangement)
27.           Easter Opener (Resurrection)
28.           Father's Day - Family Proclamation - Children Songbook
29.           Mother's Day - Family Proclamation - Children Songbook
30.           Original Easter  (Meditation)

Deadline: December 15, 2015
31.           Patriotic (use in Sacrament Meeting)
32.           Pioneer (use in Sacrament Meeting)
33.           Sacred Song Arrangement
34.           Temple piece
35.           Testimony piece (like "This Is the Christ")
36.      Young Women Theme 2014 - SA


Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Determining Availability

I received a letter from my good friend, Rickey Shirley about use of a specific hymn in an arrangement which he submitted for publishing. Here is clarification which I hope it will be useful  to all arrangers:
Jerry Jackman

  Rickey,
  One clarification—be cautious when using the
  creation date of a piece as a determination as to
  its availability. That has only an indirect impact on the issue. 
  A composer would have had to be no older than 19 when
  he died in order for his piece, created in 1923 to
  be available now. You see, it is his DEATH date that
  determines when a piece passes into Public Domain,
  not when the piece was written or
  published. Otherwise, he could be 89 years old
  today, and the seventy years protection of his work
  would still not have kicked in.
  The only possible further consideration is when
  his piece was copyrighted in or before
  1927—that copyright renewed in 1956, and finally
  expired and passed into Public Domain in 1984.
  The next year, 1985, the new
  copyright law went into effect and extended
  protection to the later issues of writer's entire lifetime,
  PLUS seventy years.
  I publish the works of people now who were born
  before 1923, who are STILL living.
  Remember that the copyright now extends for a long,
  long time, and only if the writer has been DEAD,
  now, since before 1942 can we consider using their
  work at all—well, at least without permission.
  Fun stuff, isn't it?—Research, I mean.
  Jerry

Monday, June 27, 2011

General needs












The bottom line way we look
at submissions:



1)  Do we need a piece for a ChoralClub obligation?


2)  Does it fill a niche for our demo recording?
3)  Has it been arranged before?
4)  Is it unusually distinctive?
5)  Is it needed for General Conference or some other
      large event?

Here are specific needs we have at the moment:

JACKMAN MUSIC CORPORATION
Choral Music Manuscript Needs for 2012





1.              Christmas Cantata (like Christmas: A Carol Cantata)
2.              Essential Ward Choir, Vol. 1 - SATB - Arr. Brent Jorgensen
3.              It Came upon the Midnight Clear - SATB - Arr. Carson Orme
3a.     Wexford Carol  SATB Smith
4.              Christmas Carol Arrangement - SSA
5.              Christmas Carol Medley
6.              Christmas Opener - SATB
7.              Christmas Original - SA
8.              Christmas Original - SAB
9.              Hear the Angels Sing - SATB, flt, piano - Kristen Allred
10.           Christmas Original - SATB
11.           Christmas Original or Arrangement - TTBB
12.           Original Easter Meditation
13.           Easter Opener
14.           Father's Day - Family Proclamation - Children Songbook
15.           Hymn Arrangement - Meditation
16.           I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go - SAB - Kristen Allred
17.           My Heavenly Father Loves Me - All Things Bright and Beautiful - SATB - Arr. Douglas Pew
18.           Jesus Savior Pilot Me - Jesus, Thou Who Wearest a Crown - SATB - Arr. Douglas Pew
19.           Hymn Opener - SATB (Stake Conference)
20.           Mother's Day - Family Proclamation - Children Songbook
21.           Original Easter ("The Gardens") - Meditation
22.           Original Sacred - SA
23.           Original Sacred - SAB
24.           Original Sacred - SATB
25.           Original Sacred - SSA
26.           All Creatures of Our God and King - TTBB, org - James C. Kasen
27.           Oh, Beautiful for Spacious Skies / Onward Christian Soldiers
               SATB - Arr. Jackie Frost Halversen
28.           Pioneer (Heritage)
29.           R.S. Birthday Celebration - SSA
30.           Sacred Song Choral Arr. (Like, but not O Divine Redeemer)*
31.           Stake Conference - Faith, Scripture based, Prayer, Trust
32.           Temple piece
33.           Testimony piece (like "This Is the Christ")
34.           Missionary Work Piece
35.           Thanksgiving Opener
36.           Thanksgiving: Because I Have Been Given Much/For the Beauty
               SATB - Arr. Jackie Frost Halversen
37.           Young Women Theme - SA  Standards)

* Check catalog listing for duplications. Submissions must be original, free from copyright restrictions, or Public Domain (i.e. a hymn written by someone dead for at least 70 years.)

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Current Production List

JACKMAN MUSIC CORPORATION
Summer Choral Production List
as of 28 July 2015




JAN 2015
___ #01507  What Is This Thing That Men Call Death?  Hinckley & Perry
___ #01656  He Watching Over Israel - Mendelssohn/Jackman
___ #01454  Glory to God on High - SATB - Steven Spiel

FEB 2015
___ #00719  Come unto Christ - Renae Eldridge - SSAATB
___ #01458  Nearer, Dear Savior to Thee - SATB - Arr. Ann Kapp Andersen
___ #01518  God Loved Us So He Sent - TTBB - Arr. McDavitt

MAR 2015     
___ #01379  The Advent of Emmanuel - Oratorio - by Rob Millett
___ #00460  Thine Own Way - SATB - by Rickey Shirley
___ #01484  If You Could Hie to Heaven - SATB - Arr. Gordon Jessop
___ #01762  Jesus in a Manger Came - SATB - Kristen Allred
___ #00986  Yes, My Native Land - SSAATTBB - Arr. James C. Kasen

APR 2015
___ #01139  American Hymn - SATB - Arr. Thomas L. Durham
___ #01572  The Savior's Smile - SATB - James K. McFerson
                         Donna & Michael Kleven
___ #01690  While Shepherds Watched - SAATTB - by S. Gordon Jessop
___ #01647  My Soul Delighteth In the Covenants - SA - Janice Kapp Perry

MAY 2015
___ #01695  Lift Up Your Voice and Sing - SA - Carson
___ #01693  Jesus the Very Thought of Thee - SB - Halversen
___ #01433  Midnight Clear - SATB - by Nathan Bigler
___ #00179  Weary Not—Come unto Jesus - SATB - Jorgensen  

JUNE/JULY 2015
___ #01697  The First Noel - SATB - by Nathan Bigler
___ #01721  Infant Holy, Infant Lowly - Eldridge
___ #01734  Thanksgiving Celebration SATB - Arr. Jorgensen
___ #01754  Missionary Medley - SSATBB - Chemain Evans
___ #00000  I Stand All Amazed - SSAATTBB - Arr. Ryan Murphy
___ #00000  Jesus Lover of My Soul - SATB - Arr. Steven Spiel

Friday, November 19, 2010

Academy of LDS Print Music

Friday, 19 November 2010

Christmas Postludes and Sussex Carol went to press today—also reprint orders for Jenny Oaks Baker's Violin Collection No. 1 plus some some chorals. The pressure is easing somewhat in Editorial. I only have one more Christmas choral to get out for the demo—Gordon Jessop's While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks—and I am half finished with that. I have a dozen non-Christmas items to get to print. I am also developing a new small choral assortment for Easter.

We met with a dozen composers Tuesday night at Goodwoods Barbecue Co. at the University Mall to visit and networfk over dinner. It was a nice evening with Chemain Evans, Jan Underwood Pinborough, Penelope Moody Allen, Amy Baugh Hansen, C. C. Cole Edwards, Peggy Pearson, Janice Kapp Perry, Marden Pond, Brent Jorgensen, Clark Edwards, and others—a good time to review new works and to catch up witb with these influential writers’ lives.

We discussed forming an Academy of LDS Print Music which would be a means of recognizing outstanding contributions to our industry.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

On the Line

Sunday, 8 August 2010

In the Orem Canyon View 6th Ward today, Bishop Mella and Adam Millington sang Rachel Goates' "Teach Me to Walk / Love Is Spoken Here" medley. Though this piece is a two part CHOIR number, it worked extremely well as a duet. I was surprised by its emotional impact.