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Zinfonia Changes

Posted on May 23, 2021 by btmi

This week we published a major update to Zinfonia that contains a number of changes which are outlined below. Gender-based Composer Searches Composer records in Zinfonia now have a designation to identify composers by their gender (either male, female or … Continue reading →

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Searching Zinfonia with JSON

Posted on March 14, 2021 by btmi

A lot of work has gone into the Zinfonia search engine, and all Zinfonia publishers can now take advantage of a brand new toolkit for your public websites and internal systems that will allow you to search for 10,000 composers … Continue reading →

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HLMSW Build 8.00 (Build 9.00)

Posted on February 11, 2021 by btmi

The changes in the EU membership has created a number of challenges for our UK users, particularly with the movement of materials between the UK and the EU. While we are working with those affected directly on solutions related to … Continue reading →

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Zinfonia 2020 Review

Posted on January 10, 2021 by btmi

Most Requested works in 2020 *Note: Due to the Covid-19 crisis, this year’s Zinfonia statistics represent a list of works requested and not necessarily performed as the majority of all orders placed on the system were later withdrawn. Aaron Copland … Continue reading →

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in© is coming!

Posted on October 1, 2020 by btmi

BTMI’s new copyright management platform called in© (www.incopyright.com) will be entering its beta phase very shortly at which time will be writing to all of our publisher partners to invite them to take a closer look. The new platform works … Continue reading →

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Help is on the Way

Posted on May 14, 2020 by btmi

BTM recently upgraded their help systems to improve client services, especially with the plans for expansion in the coming months. To make this work, we would ask all clients to use the following email addresses for any assistance for any … Continue reading →

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Vale David Daniels

Posted on April 29, 2020 by btmi

I was very sad to hear of the passing of David Daniels, conductor and musicologist this month. We meet briefly at the 2017 MOLA conference in San Diego where he announced his retirement from his Orchestral Music project, a publication … Continue reading →

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Zinfonia exceeds 50k users

Posted on January 26, 2020 by btmi

Zinfonia celebrated this week an important milestone as our number of users passed the landmark of 50k registrations. Zinfonia today hosts more than 135k titles by 10.5k composers from 250 imprints which are accessed in six languages by performers, librarians, … Continue reading →

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Zinfonia 2019 Review

Posted on January 10, 2020 by btmi

Zinfonia most performed titles in 2019 Arturo Márquez Danzon No. 2 (Peermusic Classical)  Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition; arr. [Ravel] (Boosey & Hawkes)  Carl Orff Carmina Burana (Schott Music)  Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring. Suite [Orchestral Version] (Boosey & Hawkes)  Aaron … Continue reading →

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Zinfonia charges in 2020

Posted on September 21, 2019 by btmi

Zinfonia today features more than 135,000 titles by 10,600 composers that serves our ever-expanding community of more than 47,000 Zinfonia users in 126 countries (see our engagement map here). The costs for publishers to use Zinfonia have not changed since … Continue reading →

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