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Please do not hesitate to
submit your own compositions for publication by us,
if you feel that they correspond to our
catalog.
We
do publish :-)
- music for piano and organ
- music for strings,
classical guitar and harp
- music for wood, brass and
classical saxophone
- chamber music (from duets
to sextets, in any combination of
instruments)
- songs and choral music (a
cappella or accompanied)
We
do not publish :-(
- jazz, rock, pop or folk
music
- symphonic orchestra
scores
- opera
- wind-band / fanfare /
brass-band arrangements.
We suggest :
- If you would like to
submit your compositions to us for
publication, choose a few of your works (two or
three) and submit them to other people for their
opinion: a composer, no matter how good, is
never the best judge of his or her own work. In
the first instance, submit shorter compositions,
for piano or chamber music arrangements, rather
than long and more complicated
compositions.
- Send copies of your
music to us by post. Never send the
originals &emdash; they might get lost in the
post. We do not accept submissions for
publication by fax or by email.
- It is useful (but
not essential) to enclose a short CV and
a list of works you have composed, especially if
some of these are already published.
- You must be able to
affirm that these are your orginal composition.
Copying &emdash; whether deliberate or
accidental &emdash; is illegal and can lead to
the composer being very heavily fined.
Quotations within a composition are allowed, but
only where these are clearly acknowledged and in
some cases this will require the express and
written consent of the original copyright
holder.
- If the composition is
a song and the words are not in the public
domain, then the composer must be able to prove
that he or she has the permission of the author
(or the person who owns the copyright on the
text).
- Be sure that your
composition is in its final form, ready for
publication. Are you really sure that this is
the definitive version, and that you do not want
to make any adjustments ? Changes are possible
once engraving has begun, but they can make life
difficult for the engraver. Any changes made to
already engraved portions will necessarily
involve an extra cost.
- Please say in an
accompanying letter if the work has been or
is likely to be recorded on CD or played in
concert.
- Be patient! We
follow the standard publishing practice of
sending your work out for evaluation, which
requires a minimum of one or two months. Once a
work is accepted for publication, it will be
timetabled into our program of publishing. The
average lapse of time between acceptance and
publication is six months. If we decide not to
publish, you will be informed within two months
of its submission.
- If we decide to
publish, then we take on all the engraving
and printing costs. We will send you a draft
contract, which will detail the royalty
remuneration you will receive.
- We can also rework
music already set using Finale®,
Encore® or SmartScore® (for both Mac and
PC). In such cases, you can submit your work on
floppy disk. We are unable to reprocess music
set on any other program.
Our adress is
:
Edition
musicale BAYARD-NIZET
c/o Mme Nicole NIZET
6, rue des Ecoles
B-4970 - STAVELOT
(Belgique)
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