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

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