“Chas. H. Hansen Music Corp.”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The firm — incorporated on December 11, 1952, by Charles Henry Hansen — was the outgrowth of an earlier proprietorship founded by Hansen in 1946 named the Charles Hansen Music Company.^[7] Hansen was the sole owner of both firms and was also the owner of Ethel Smith Music Corp., a New York corporation founded in 1949 and dissolved in 1991. Hansen formed several partnerships with artists and other publishers, mostly for the purpose of distributing folios of hits. Some titles now seem so rare or hard to find that no amount of searching will suggest they ever existed. One such title is Pacific Popular no.60: 'The Big 12 string Guitar' which held transcriptions from most of the tracks on LPs (now a CD) titled 'The 12 string story'.

Hansen hired and trained young composers and arrangers, including Nathan East, Walter Beeler, Alfred Reed, John Edmondson, Anne McGinty, Frank Hackinson, John Brimhall, Jodi Atwood, Charlies Minarelli and Michael Tchaban.

By 1950, Hansen Music had become an influential music folio reprinter of hit music of other publishers — a growing niche market that had erstwhile been led by larger firms. The Hansen folios included simplified scoring of popular music for elementary piano, uke, trumpet, clarinet, saxophone, accordion, trombone, Western quartets, sacred choir, and barbershop quartets.

The publishing of sheet music, single and folio, had become a near monopoly by a few large companies. The youngest, founded in 1971 by a longtime protégé of Charles Hansen, Frank Hackinson, was Screen Gems—Columbia Publications. The others were Charles Hansen Publications, Warner Brothers Music, and the oldest, Big Three Music, owned by United Artists. Working out of fully equipped and self-contained facilities in Florida, with staffs and arrangers, Screen Gems and Hansen accounted for about two-thirds of the industry's $140 million annual retail gross sales. A fundamental difference between Screen Gems and Hansen was that Screen–Gems mostly owned the copyrights to the music of its folios, whereas Hansen mostly licensed the copyrights.

Early on, in 1954, Hansen Music acquired the Caribbean Music Catalog from publisher Joe Davis (1896–1978), containing 500 tunes, of which, 150 were published. However, it is unclear whether the deal was done as an acquisition or a license.

On May 20, 1971, the firm changed its name to Charles Hansen Music & Books, Inc. The firm became inactive December 24, 1991.

Hansen Music was the first to delve deeply into published legal fake books that had enough songs for serious musicians.^[11] Fake books published:

By the late 1970s, the publishing of legal fake books by Hansen Music and others achieved through competition assimilation what the copyright laws miserably failed to do through prohibition. In the vernacular of jazz musicians, “legit” often means “classical.” But in the vernacular of this topic, “legit” and “real” means “legal.”^[11]

Selected performing artists and composers of Hansen's published music

Divisions & locations

At one time, the corporation had offices in Chicago, St. Louis, Seattle, Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York City, but none remained open as long as the headquarters in New York, located on the 6th floor of a building at 119 West 57th Street, New York City, two doors west of Steinway Hall and on the same block, across the street and east of Carnegie Hall. When the Hansen corporation began to grow, it needed more warehouse space, and later moved to the first floor of the same building. This was the main headquarters until 1958, when it moved to Miami Beach, Florida. The 57th Street building, still standing, is a 16-story structure designed by Emery Roth and completed in 1927.

Notable staff members

Charles Hansen

In 1941, Hansen was the sales manager of Mercer & Morris (Edwin H. Morris). When Mercer & Morris acquired White-Smith Music Publishing Company in 1941, Hansen assumed the same role at White-Smith.^[22] In the 1930s, Hansen was a traveling song-plugger for Mills Music.

Family

Charles Hansen was married to Isabel McGehee Hood (1914–2003). They had a son, Charles H. Hansen, Jr. (born 1954), and two daughters, Susan Marie Isabel Hansen and Kathleen Florence Hansen (1949–2009). Susan is married to Michael Stanton Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

In 1951 Hansen purchased the home of John Reed King at 4 North Drive, Malba, Queens.^[23]

References

1. ^¹²[https://books.google.com/books?id=lWrDoDY-xaEC&pg=PA27 Alfred Reed: A Bio-bibliography,] by Douglas M. Jordan (born 1966), Greenwood Publishing Group (1999) {{OCLC|615629466}}
2. ^¹The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and their music (in Vol. 1 of 2 vols.), by William H. Rehrig, Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press (1991) {{OCLC|24606813}}
3. ^¹Music printing and publishing, edited by Donald William Krummel & Stanley Sadie (1990), pg. 275 {{OCLC|21583943}}
4. ^¹²ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, Fourth edition, compiled for the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, by Jaques Cattell Press, New York: R.R. Bowker (1980)
5. ^¹²[https://books.google.com/books?id=JjEaqP4ZFI4C&pg=PA122 The Story of Fake Books: Bootlegging Songs to Musicians,] by Barry Dean Kernfeld, Scarecrow Press (2006), pg. 122 {{OCLC|67922006}}
6. ^¹Oral History: Edna Adams, National Association of Music Merchants (2010)
7. ^¹²[https://books.google.com/books?id=QCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT58 Print Companies are Prospering], Billboard, January 16, 1982, pg. 33
8. ^¹²³After Charles Hansen Arrived Publishing Was Never the Same, by Elizabeth Cathleen Dallman (born 1976) (since writing the article, Dallman married John Jackson Bentley), The Instrumentalist, Northfield, Illinois, Vol. 56, No. 6, January 2002, pps. 23, 24, & 26 {{OCLC|107666787}}, {{ISSN|0020-4331}}
9. ^¹[https://books.google.com/books?id=vwgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26 Nashville Nabs Hansen Hdqtrs.] Billboard, August 21, 1971, pg. 26
10. ^¹Notes from the Field, Music Educators Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1 (September–October 1941), pg. 6
11. ^¹Dwellings Dominate Long Island Trading, New York Times, May 8, 1951