Coda Announces That Schott Music International has Made Its Catalog Available to Customers Online Through Net4Music.Business Editors MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2000 Coda Music Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:COMT COMT Catechol-O-Methyltransferase COMT Certified Ophthalmic Medical Technologist ) is successfully moving its strategic merger with Net4Music SA forward as announced August 27, 2000, currently targeted to be complete on October 19, 2000. As they get closer to this merger the activities of both companies become more important to the financial community and others who have followed Coda. To that end, Coda management is informing you of important events at Net4Music. Net4Music, the Internet's premier resource for musicians and music educators, announced September 26th that it had secured digital distribution rights to the entire catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of German publisher Schott Musik International. The deal covers a wide range of classical and contemporary music, including important works by Beethoven, Wagner, Stravinsky, Orff, Rodrigo, Ligeti, Henze, Penderecki, Takemitsu and others. Over 230 years old, Schott Musik was the original publisher of many of these works, and has one of the most comprehensive catalogs of materials for instrumental education, choral cho·ral adj. 1. Of or relating to a chorus or choir. 2. Performed or written for performance by a chorus. [Medieval Latin chor works and orchestral scores in the world. The company also produces several innovative solutions for electronic media, including its MasterPlayAlong and CD-PluScore technologies. "Schott Musik International is truly one of the most important names in classical and contemporary music," said Net4Music CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Francois Duliege. "This agreement makes a huge and respected catalog available to our users." Net4Music will make Schott's most popular sheet music titles available for download, including German and international songs, and some extremely rare editions of classical scores from the company's extensive archives. The offering will also feature music titles from larger works and collections that individual musicians can download at low prices, rather than spend big money for full volumes of sheet music. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dr. Peter Hanser-Strecker, "Distributing online through Net4Music will provide musicians and educators with the most convenient way possible to access our large, complex catalog of music. We are extremely excited about this opportunity to expand our reach." Hanser-Strecker added that the agreement with Net4Music would allow Schott to explore new models of distribution among its existing dealer network in the German-speaking territories of Germany and Austria. The publisher plans together with Net4Music to offer this dealer network unique packages with very favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. terms and conditions, as well as free intensive training support, enabling them to make the products offered online at the Net4Music web site even more accessible to consumers in their region. About Net4Music: Net4Music is a company for musicians, by musicians. Using Internet technology, Net4Music has revolutionized the distribution of sheet music by licensing the digital distribution rights to the world's largest catalog of titles from all music genres This list is split into four separate pages: Coda Music Technology and/or its officers and directors may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation solicitation In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual of proxies from shareholders of Coda Music Technology with respect to Coda's merger with Net4Music. Information regarding such officers and directors is included in Coda Music Technology's annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 1999 filed with the SEC on March 27, 2000. 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Such forward-looking statements, which reflect Coda's current views of future events and financial performance, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results or facts to differ materially from such statements for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to, the risks described from time to time in Coda's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (including Coda's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. ). Investors should take such risks into account when making investment decisions. Shareholders and other readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. Coda undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements. |
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