{"id":1539,"date":"2012-06-07T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T09:40:49","slug":"the-cost-of-score-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/06\/07\/the-cost-of-score-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"The cost of score hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have the option of hiring a score of a well-known choral work for \u00a35 for a forthcoming concert.  I&#8217;m not sure whether this reflects the actual expense of hiring, or whether the choir has added a markup, but when you add postage to me, it is only a pound or two short of what it would cost to buy a good used or even a new copy of the vocal score of the same work.<\/p>\n<p>Is this now the going rate for score hire?  At this rate I am going to start acquiring a library of the works I sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the option of hiring a score of a well-known choral work for \u00a35 for a forthcoming concert. I&#8217;m not sure whether this reflects the actual expense of hiring, or whether the choir has added a markup, but when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/06\/07\/the-cost-of-score-hire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}