Today, regardless of whether a historical or contemporary play is being performed as cai luong or which of many troupes is staging it, this melody will be heard throughout the play many times, underlying different lyrics.
(Publishers represent the music and lyrics underlying songs, not recordings of them, which are covered by a separate copyright).
The album may still have an underlying concept — its lyrics revolve around changing seasons and the natural world — but the songs don't trace one dramatic arc.
The company will also help YouTube in matching up compositions -- the music and lyrics underlying every song -- with recordings, whose copyrights are typically owned by record companies.
The copyrights for music publishing are for the music and lyrics underlying each song, as opposed to recordings, and it is not uncommon for multiple publishers to have ownership or administration interests in a single song.
But its publishing division — which controls the copyright for the music and the lyrics underlying songs — is one of the largest and most successful, with about 20 percent market share.
EMI releases music by the Beatles, Katy Perry, the Beastie Boys and many others, and the company's music publishing division, which controls the copyrights to the music and lyrics underlying songs, is considered one of most highly prized in the industry.
In spite of its graphic lyrics, the underlying pro-feminist slant that is found in many of the songs led some to tag the band as being part of the riot grrl movement, which Love was not directly associated with.
One of the demos she recorded in those first, self-funded sessions was called The Bells, an apparently cheerful, dreamy track with an underlying meanness to it, the lyrics seeming to play with ideas of manipulation, in this case, manipulation by a singer who also has their finger on the controls of a drum machine.
As an outsider, it's a little bewildering and bizarre to witness that love of the oppressive hair-metal movement, smelling oddly like Stockholm syndrome, but it is clear that all involved wholeheartedly participate, revealing something powerful beyond the underlying ostracizing message of the lyrics.
