Engaging Music Company 

Since 1991, I have engraved over 500 pieces of music currently in print for major publishers including National Music Publishers and Cantabile Press.

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Types of scores include: 

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• Handbell Music (full choir, ensemble, and solo)

• Choral (all voicings including additional instrumental and/or rhythm parts)

• Full Orchestra 

• Full Band

• Small Ensembles (string quartets, chamber orchestras, etc)

• Contemporary music with unique or original symbols.

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My services:

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• A professionally produced and ready to publish copy of your manuscript based on your publishers specific guidelines. 

• Cleaning up and using general conventions for music notation recognized by publishers around the world.  (Let's be honest here - when you're composing, do you really care which direction the stems go?  Let me decide that for you.)

• Correcting 'spelling' errors if needed - and I mean note spelling to ensure the music makes sense theory wise.  (Yes, that's why C double flat is sometimes warranted.)

• Transposition of full score and/or parts.

• Light arranging.  I can help with adding chord symbols, voicing challenges, and aiding in keeping instruments with range and even a specific difficulty level.

• Almost unlimited changes* 

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My Philosophy

 

The piece of music I'm working on is your baby.  You're passionate about it and want it to be perfect.  I'm human, you're human, we're both going to make mistakes.   One thing we have in common is to produce the best piece of music possible.  This is why I allow almost unlimited changes. 

 

As a team, we'll both change our minds about how something should look or sound.  You might have an epiphany at 3am for a new verse, or different harmony, or you maybe decide that saxophone part would sound better on accordion (doubtful, but you never know, and nothing against accordions or saxophones was intended).  Regardless, I feel my work is out there as well is yours so I want it be right before being published and ready for mass reproduction when you win your Grammy.

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What does almost unlimited mean?  It means let's be reasonable.  If you decide to scrap an entire piece, I still spent time on it and need to be compensated.  But tweaking words, notes, measures here and there, is fairly simple and takes little time to edit.  If you changes add another page, then I'll invoice your for another page.  

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Nutshell: Let's work together to be beneficial (and profitable) for both of us.

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