[BC] Music In Commercials

[Tom Spencer]

There is.  (are; seems to be several)  While I figured the translations 
might not be PD, it seems most are...

Here's the second entry that Google found:

http://www.ccel.org/h/handel/messiah/

Print Basis:    New York: G. Schirmer, 1912
Rights:    Public Domain
Status:    Digital facsimile edition
CCEL Subjects:    All; Hymns
LC Call no:    M2003.H14
LC Subjects:   

Music

Vocal music

Sacred vocal music

Oratorios

I figured that it'd have to be original (German) transcript, but there 
seem to be several versions that the 99-year copyright has lapsed.

Rob Landry wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Mike McCarthy wrote:
>
> (re: Handel's Messiah):
>   
>
> I am surprised there isn't an edition of Messiah in the public domain.
>   

-- 
Tom Spencer