April 2026

Can A Musical Scale Be Registered As A Musical Work In Its Own Right?

April 4, 2026

Ascending scale on the bars of a xylophone

Can musical scales, the fundamental building blocks of all music, be registered as original works? A humorous look back at two songwriters' experiment with GEMA in 1985.

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