| General Guidelines: If it's in the public domain, you can do just about anything. Unfortunately, I don't believe that this piece would fall into this category.
If any piece has been recorded before, you can make a recording of it (as is), but you'd need to pay Mechanical License fees -- most likely through the Harry Fox Agency. Basically, once someone records a piece, anyone else can record it as long as they pay these fees.
If you want to rearrange a non-public domain piece and sell it, you'll need to find out who "owns" the piece and get their permission to rearrange it and sell it. If I remember that piece correctly, it has something on the bottom that expressely prohibits rearranging it. (I could be wrong). Either way, the safest way is to check and get permission.
I'm not a copyright lawyer - just picked some things up over the years. There's a pretty good book out there called "The Business of Music" (may be an updated one since this one was out) that gives a lot of general guidelines.
Good luck.
Scott |