Jolora said...
This is not a Finale question, but I wanted to get opinions from my friends on this site:

My wife is a piano teacher and director of a local handbell choir. Her piano students are all beginners and the handbell choir needs to perform relatively simple pieces. As such, we do a good bit of arranging for both. Oftentimes it is a wholly done arrangement by our own hands of a traditional piece. But sometimes she wants to use a published work as a starting point and pretty much customize it for her use.

When we start with a published work, but make drastic changes (overall key changes, simplify rhythms and/or harmony, change where things go in a modulation, or even combine two or more works into a single piece), she is unsure how to credit this in a printed program. She wants to keep it relatively simple, but also acknowledge that the works as performed are different from the published piece (not to claim any credit, but to avoid confusion).

What would you suggest? I'm asking for how the works should be presented in a printed program, not on the sheet music itself. We always include any copyright notices verbatim on anything based on a published work. And this is all community-based performances. Nothing for profit; we am not selling these "arrangements."