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Music Preparation Guidelines For Composers
Music Preparation Guidelines For Composers
MUSIC PREPARATION
GUIDELINES FOR
COMPOSERS
The following guidelines pertain to book design for
music publications (i.e., scores and parts). They are a
good starting point for most pieces, but instrumentation
and the speci!c details of each work will dictate which
choices to make.
General Comments
Front Matter
Title Page
• Title
• Composer
Notes Page(S)
• Duration
• Commissioning credit
• First performance
• Title
• Composer
Scores
Piano/vocal Scores
Choral Scores
Chamber Scores
Parts
Page Numbering
Typefaces
Strings
Harp
Paper
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
All suggested resources are in English; books link to
Amazon.
I n s t r u m e n t a t i o n B o o k s : S p e c i !c
Instruments And Extended
Techniques
Notation Books
Music Printers