Matthew Tift  Drupal. Public Media. Musicology. Yoga.  Open-
Source Music: 10 More Reasons Why It Fits  Tue, 06/05/2012 -
21:01 -- mtift  A few days ago I offered my version of an
introduction to open-source music and suggested a few reasons
why I think public media organizations should be proponents of
open-source recordings and scores. Here are 10 more reasons why
this would be a good idea for public media:    1. It's a digital
world. Free and open access to digital music can greatly help
expand music audiences. Especially for some digital natives,
classical music scores might as well not exist at all if they
are not online and searchable. For these folks, a great
CD and printed sheet music is a world apart from an
instantaneous great recording + moving score + video all mixed
together.   2. Think of the children. The score-following
technology that is used on sites like allows kids (or anyone,
really) to learn about music by watching the notes they hear,
much like underlined words in a children's program on