Two years ago, I worked for several months with a friend of mine who had written 100+ songs as a young man in Italy ... He had written down the lyrics to most of them, but not the music notation ... We spent a great deal of time creating the written music through the use of Notation Composer software hooked up via midi to my technics kn6000 ...my friend would sing the song, I would pick out the melody on the KB and then play it through Notation Composer ...
The songs we completed were then copywritten through the Italian version of ASCAP, and since then some were made into you tube videos by my friend's son ...
The hope was that by submitting the songs to songwriter web sites, someone might want to publish or record one (or more) ... however to date, the only activity has been the playing of one of the songs by some Italian band in a concert in Italy ...
It was a labor of LOVE more than $$$ - but it was GREAT fun ...