You just have a manuscript? Send a copy : Never, never, never send your original for submission. The fact that your music is not engraved is absolutely not a problem. As you read above, budget is just one element amongst many others. If we think your music will fit our catalogue, we shall work and pay for it.
Your work is already engraved?Great, engraving is time-consuming and may be expensive.
No matter what production scenario is used, the publisher should copyedit
the book. This is important to ensure that quality standards are upheld.
Remember that the more the author does to further the production of the
book, the less involvement there is by highly skilled and experienced professionals like typographers and proofreaders. The publisher's copyeditor will greatly help to alleviate typos, style, and consistency problems; gross errors;
and many typographic and design difficulties.
So, the real question is : may we use the engraving file?br>
The answer is YES is the file fits on vertical (portrait) A4 and belongs to one of these formats :
A recent version of Finale ;
A recent version of Sibelius.
In this case, join a CD-ROM in your envelop.
Other formats (including Score, Sibelius, Professional composer, MIDI files, PDF, .eps, .ps, .niff etc.) don't help, except if yo are able and allowed to make some changes to this file and to provide us a high-quality 1.200 dpi corrected proof. In this case, tell it.
Specify the following elements for each work you submit :
title of the work
instruments
number of instrumental parts needed
credits (arranger, lyrics etc.) + are they in public domain?
year of composition
year of creation
estimated duration
support (CD, films...) using this work
is this music engraved and, if yes, with wich software?
eventual remarks
About yourself, don't forget to send us your :
name
address
phone, fax, email, URL (if any)
your author's society (if any)
some biographical elements
[This may sound incredible but we already received pretty good works
without any name or address!]
Include, if you have, a tape or a CD, even if the performance and the recording are bad. You may aso refer to an URL pointing for some .mp3 ou MIDI file. If the works is engraved on a computer, specify the program and join the file on a disk. Clearly precise if you want these materials back. It happens that we
can't propose a contract when we receive the work but, if the work asthetically
fits our guidelines, we consider it one or two years later. It also happens
that we think the work could be welcomed by another publisher we collaborate
with. In this case, we send him your materials (of course, you remains
free to decline his eventual offer). For these reasons, please explicitly
ask to get your material back if we can't propose you a publishing contract.
Thanks a lot! Your are ready now for the next step :
