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We use a rather unusual program for notation work: Corel^® Presentations™ 14.0,
saving to

• vector-format .WPG;
• bitmaps: .BMP, .GIF (CompuServe), .JPG (Joint Photographic Group), .PNG, .TIF (Tagged Image File format) and .PCX;
• .EPS (Encapsulated PostScript);
• metafile: .CGM or .WMF (Windows metafile) —
• as well as excellent output via Adobe®’s outstanding .PDF (portable document format).

Don’t let that deter you:  We get very high qual­ity, and then save it to a 600 DPI file that will com­press very well and print out as clean­ly as you could pos­sib­ly want. Be­cause we use a graphics pro­gram for the no­ta­tion, we can cre­ate any kind of struc­ture you want, in­clu­ding spec­ial sym­bols and cus­tom no­ta­tion for av­ant-​garde mu­sic. You can ex­am­ine examples of our work here (clicking on any of the linked works’ titles will show you a variety of notational techniques, and use Zoom to see details, if your browser supports this. The preceding link will spawn a new window or tab. Close that to continue here.).

Our custom notational symbols (clefs, accidentals, time signatures, slurs/ties, etc. — most are filled bezier curves) are much better looking than what we’ve seen in other programs.

We’re also expert at modern notational techniques (a BMI SCA winner ’73/’74 is here) such as clus­ters, quar­ter- and mi­cro­tones, pro­por­tion­al no­tat­ion, cus­tom sym­bols, poly­me­ter, poly­rhythm, etc. — much of which of­ten isn’t ade­quate­ly sup­por­ted by con­ven­tion­al no­ta­tion pro­grams.

Because we use a graphical, rather than a fixed-in-stone no­ta­tion program, the flexibility is much greater. The no­ta­tion­al pre­cis­ion is as great as can be achieved by met­ic­ul­ous hand work. Click this to spawn a window to see the open­ing bars of the “Aria” from Bach’s “Gold­berg” var­ia­tions (a screen-​reso­lu­tion [96DPI] ex­am­ple), and close that to con­tin­ue here.

Our fee schedule is the same as for MIDI work: $30 [Green=non-profits’ rate of $20]/hour for simple work ($15 minimum) and $50 [34]/hr. for more complex scores.

• Clicking on the ORDER NOW icon will spawn your E-mail program,
  • and generate a form in it for you to fill out. Append your project description after the “Instructions for work to be done, or query” field there, and send that to us.
• If you have hard copy such as handwritten, electronically scanned, etc., please, send no originals by snail-mail. You may send the work separately (encrypted or con­fid­en­tial if you wish) as an E-mail at­tach­ment. State what you want done in the “In­struc­tions, or query” field on the order form, and we’ll gen­er­al­ly have it for you in two or three days (the same day, if short). We’ll send back an ac­know­ledg­ment of your or­der the same or the next busi­ness day when we ac­cept the work, for your ap­prov­al.
• Given the usual copyright sensitivity of music notation, we will sign a non-​pla­gi­ar­ism/​con­fid­en­ti­al­ity agree­ment, if re­ques­ted. Just enclose it with the sub­mis­sion pack­age.
• You may want to ZIP up any files, maybe encrypting them (use the -sPASSWORD op­tion with PKware’s Sec­ureZIP, for ex­am­ple — see your ZIP-​gen­er­ator’s docu­men­ta­tion), sen­ding the en­cryp­tion key in a sep­ar­ate E-Mail, if you’re par­an­oid.