SIGNATURE EDITION
- have you ever wanted your OWN edition that is easy-to-read, clear, and customized just for your needs?
- we CUSTOMIZE MUSIC EDITIONS with your very own fingerings, bowings, dynamics, layout, and other elements
- choose from concertos, sonatas, solo and recital works, études, caprices, etc.
- we specialize in SOLO PARTS (NO piano parts) for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass, as well as CHAMBER MUSIC for strings
- we also engrave ANYTHING you need for your professional and teaching activities (exercises, musical examples and quotes, etc.), no matter how short or long, easy or complex
- we will work with you directly to customize your Signature Edition until it is publication-ready, via email, text, and phone
- we can only edit works in the Public Domain (PD), unless you yourself are the composer, or you can show copyright's owner permission to edit or publish a work NOT in the Public Domain. NO exceptions!
- you retain ALL copyright in your edition of a PD work. While in progress, projects will show NO copyright notice until the FINAL version, which is delivered to you with your own copyright notice, concluding the project
- we will sign an NDA agreement to keep your source materials confidential during and after your project
- you can sell YOUR SIGNATURE EDITION or share it online as a PDF or in physical published form, as you wish, to anyone, with no restrictions of any kind, as permitted by law. How long does copyright last?
- we can customize ALL elements of your score: layout (A4, US letter, custom; page margins) staff and note size, pagination, bars per line and lines per page, repeat signs, rehearsal marks, bar numbers, fingerings, bowings, articulations, dynamics, all text fonts and graphic elements, etc. Examples of fonts
- sources: online PDF, or your own scan or photo(s), emailed to us. We have a very extensive violin, viola, and cello collection
- we will send you a sample PDF with the most common fonts, etc. as a starting point to create your personalized "house style" (page size, staff/note size, text fonts, fingering font, etc.). It helps if you to have an idea of your preferred text fonts beforehand, or you can show us your preferred style of an existing edition or publisher.
- we will send you PDFs showing our editing and customization progress according to your requirements
- the quickest way to request your EDITS is to review and annotate the PDF we send you on your iPad/tablet in red, take a screen snapshot of your annotated page and sent it back to us by email. We will then return the corrected PDF for your review. Additionally, we use the following system of communicating edit requirements effectively via email/text: "D34 ms 21 E should F" = Dotzauer etude 34, measure 21...). Examples of edits
- all emails/texts will be answered and returned in a TIMELY MANNER. Remote live consultations can be scheduled using FaceTime, Zoom, etc., as well as phone calls, especially at the start of the editing process
- edits will be made, and corrected PDFs will be returned to you within a 12 hour window or less (including most weekends). We are located in Chicago, US Central Time (UTC-6)
- we will operate under a contract, with a 50% down payment, and full payment before final completion of the project
- the SIGNATURE EDITION parts are publication-ready PDFs only, unless you add MusicXML and/or Sibelius files to your order
- as an ideal, we try to inform our editing according to the high standards set by such top music publishers as Bärenreiter, Henle, Schott, and Wiener Urtext
- all communication is in English
- international payments by PayPal; US payments by bank transfer, Pay, Zelle
- a detailed invoice will be issued
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