Music Publishing Podcast

For this week's episode, I sat down with San Jose-based composer and engraver Noah Luna to talk about the importance of having professional-quality scores and parts. He offered some great advice on some little things that composers can do to improve the look and - most importantly - the readability of their materials. In the course of the hour, we chatted about: getting a professional eye on your scores/parts leaving time for proofreading the various communities that engravers/copyists serve how high quality scores facilitate rehearsals how poor engraving can be costly to ensembles the rise of digital devices in performance trusting your software too much listening to music librarians MOLA standards for margins, staff size, page size, and page turns getting feedback from performers being consistent in your score layout leaving your compositional process on the page, and how that can negatively impact readability how sometimes you just have to use Staples or FedEx font usage page layout the idea of takin