I need music for a LGBT project PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING!?

[elizabeth]

A lot of people never think about copyright or royalties at all. It is good to use something in the "public domain" so that you can avoid this issue: one reason people sometimes go for producing a Shakespeare play is because no royalties or permission is involved. Something you have probably never noticed--as most people do not--is how much classical music is used in everything from cartoons to nature films, background in ordinary movies, and so on. Woody Allen uses classical music very effectively in his movie "Scoop" and it is free to use a composition hundreds of years old like that. Also, importantly for your purpose, I find that most such projects try to "cram it all in" and pile on too much overlapping stuff, which becomes distracting: like you are trying to listen to a narrator speaking words about Lesbian issues while meanwhile a song is playing as "background" which has lyrics about Lesbians at the same time, and it is impossible to concentrate on either as a consequence of too much happening all at once. Some simple classical music--Woody Allen also used it in "Love and Death with Diane Keaton--does not distract one from what is being said as the narration.