Engraving Guidelines

In order to insure coherence in the layout of our publications, we have adopted the following engraving guidelines. Works for submission have not to fit them.

PAGES

• Format : A4 Portrait
• Margins : between 15 and 20 mm
• Publisher reference
  • "AVK###" [## has to be be communicated by the publisher after agreement]
  • sans serif bold 8pt
  • lays on bottom margin
  • centered
     
• Page numbers
  • "- ## -"
  • sans serif normal 10pt
  • lays under top margin
  • centered
  • Not on the first page
     
• Page turns
  • Make the performer's life easy...

FIRST PAGE

• Title, formation, composer
  • Traditionnal placement
  • Serif
  • Upper-case
  • bloc lays under top margin
     
• Copyright
  • "© YYYY by Alain Van Kerckhoven Éditeur" [YYYY is the year of the agreement]
  • sans serif normal 8pt
  • lay on bottom margin
  • left alignment
  • Only on the first page of each movment

MUSIC

• Alterations
  • classical influence (within the measure for tonal music)
  • courtesy alterations between round brackets
     
• Instruments names
  • before staves on the first page
  • serif 10 pt standard
  • English abreviations on next pages only if possible confusions
     
• Lyrics
  • serif 10 pt standard
  • second language in italic
     
• Measures
  • Measure number not on the first measure
  • sans serif normal 8pt
  • multimeasures broken at each rehersal mark (or each 10 measures if no rehersal marks)
     
• Slurs
  • start and endings vertically centered on note head
  • interrupted over meters and keys
     
• Ties
  • start and endings vertically aligned between chords
  • start and endings horizontally centered on note head
  • interrupted over meters and keys
     
• Triplets
  • number only ("3" and not "3:2")
  • brackets beamed group

SOFTWARE

• Files have to be readable in a recent version of Finale or Sibelius.
• A PDF file is needed for security.