Getting Started

How Do I Produce My Materials?

Now that you’ve written your score, how do you produce your materials? We’ve asked William Holab*, owner of Bill Holab Music (a firm that has provided high-quality music engraving, typesetting, and design to the music industry for over 25 years) to share some of his professional insights. Click below to read his article.

10 Steps to Better Parts
(10 Steps to Better Parts is a segment from the AMC’s Tuning Up Your Career professional development workshop A Better Score: How to Produce Exceptional Scores and Parts.)

What options are available to composers to help them prepare their materials? There are two standard computer programs to assist in producing scores and parts: Sibelius (www.sibelius.com) and Finale (www.makemusic.com).

The following documents are additional segments from the AMC’s Tuning Up Your Career professional development workshop A Better Score: How to Produce Exceptional Scores and Parts.

MOLA Guidelines for Music Preparation

Selected Reading and Websites

* Holab’s wide-ranging client list includes: Mason Bates, Osvaldo Golijov, Jake Heggie, Cindy McTee, Kevin Puts, Michael Torke, Philip Glass, Elliott Carter, Charles Mingus, Bono and Schott Music Corporation. Holab formerly served as Director of Publications for G. Schirmer/Associated Music Publishers, Director of Production for Universal Edition, Editor for C.F. Peters Corporation, and Director of Publishing for Schott Music Corporation. He brings decades of experience as both an editor and autographer to the relatively new area of computer note setting. As a consultant, Holab works with Sibelius, Ltd. and MakeMusic Inc. (Finale). Also a composer, Holab studied at the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School.