Music Typesetting Services
While the primary commercial goal of ACME is the creation of custom arrangements and the publication of new music, Dr. Ayotte is pleased to lend his time and expertise to copyediting and engraving services for other publishers. Recent clients have included Edward Laufer, Dr. Erinn Knyt, Dr. Peter Smith, Ludwig Doblinger Verlag, the Atlantic Coast Opera Festival, and Clear Note Music. The engraving of musical examples for theses, dissertations, and handouts falls under this category as well, and those authors retain all rights to their works. Recent clients include Dr. Boja Kragulj, whose dissertation, The Turkish Clarinet , helped earn her a Fulbright scholarship!
The mage of musical manuscript above (Joseph Beer's "Romance" from the opera La Polonaise (1977)), as an example, pricing for engraving the manuscript page would be as follows:
- 24 staves * 4 measures = 96 frames
- 42 of those frames are not active (whole rests or unused): 96-42=54 active frames
- 54 Active Frames times $0.35 per frame = $18.90 for that page of music.
Using the following example of a sixteen-measure piece:
- a single staff consisting of the melodic line and all applicable expressions and articulations: $4.80
- a piano rendering of the same music: $9.60
- the same music arranged for string quartet: $19.20
- A twenty-piece orchestra performing the same music: $96.00
...you get the idea.
Most projects contain one or two editorial passes back and forth to ensure complete satisfaction.
Graphic scores (e.g., Schenkerian sketches, modernist graphic scores, etc.) are evaluated on a per-case basis; call us with a description, or e-mail us samples for an estimate on your project.