Resources
Resources, Links, and Forms for Current Students
A (far from exhaustive) list of resources and links for composers.
- Copyright and Licensing
- International Information Centers
- News
- Notation and Orchestration
- Organizations
- Scores
- Venues
- Artist Residencies
- Competitions
- Festivals
- Performance/Reading Opportunities
- Contemporary Music Ensembles/Performers
- Publishers
- Score & Part Preparation
- ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers)
- BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated)
- Copyright Society of the USA (CSUSA)
- Harry Fox Agency
- United States Copyright Office
- Music Library Association
- MPA's Copyright Resource Center
- Opera America
- Oral History, American Music (OHAM)
- SESAC
- Society Of Composers, Inc.
- Australian Music Center
- Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society (AMCOS)
- Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
- Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (UK) (ALCS)
- British Music Collection
- BUMA (Netherlands)
- Canadian Music Center
- Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA)
- Contemporary Music Center Ireland
- Croatian Music Information Center
- Czech Music Information Centre
- Finnish Music Information Center
- GEMA - Gesellschaft fur Musikalische Auffuhrungs- und Mechanische Vervielfaltigungsrechte
- German Music Information Center
- Komponister i Danmark (KODA)
- Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Center
- Music Information Centre Norway
- MuziekGroep Nederland (Donemus)
- Nordisk Copyright Bureau (NCB)
- Performing Right Society (UK) (PRS)
- Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) (Spain)
- Societe d'Auteurs Belge (SABAM) (Belgium)
- Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (France) (SACD)
- Swedish Music Information Center
- TONO - The Norwegian Performing Right Society
- Dorico
- Finale
- Sibelius
- Instrument Studies for the Eyes and Ears
- Music Preparation Guidelines for Orchestral Music (MOLA)
- Scoring Notes (notation tips and tutorials)
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Principles of Orchestration
- Music Notation Style Guide (Indiana University)
- Score preparation and production notes
- Finale Superuser
- American Composers Forum
- League of American Orchestras
- ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers)
- Bang on a Can
- Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
- Billboard Online
- BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated)
- Chamber Music America
- CISAC (Confederation Internationale des societes d'Auteurs et Compositeurs)
- College Music Society
- Conductors Guild
- Electronic Music Foundation
- Fromm Music Foundation
- Gaudeamus
- IRCAM - Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- Koussevitzky Music Foundation
- Meet The Composer (Commissioning Guidelines)
- Mid-America Arts Alliance
- NAfME
- National Endowment for the Arts
- New Music USA
- Aspen Music Festival
- Bang on a Can Summer Festival
- Bowdoin International Music Festival
- Brevard Music Festival
- Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
- Eastern Music Festival
- European American Music Alliance
- Fast Forward Austin
- Illinois State University Red Note New Music Festival
- Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival
- June In Buffalo
- Marlboro Music
- Mizzou International Composers Festival
- Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
- Tanglewood Music Festival
- Ojai Music Festival
- Wintergreen Performing Arts
- Akropolis Reed Quintet
- Alarm Will Sound
- American Composers Orchestra
- American Modern Ensemble
- Asko | Schönberg Ensemble
- Bang on a Can
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project
- Boston Musica Viva
- Boston New Music Initiative
- California E.A.R. Unit
- Chicago Symphony Music Now
- Claire Chase (flutist)
- Collage New Music
- Color Field Ensemble
- Continuum
- counter)induction
- Corigliano Quartet
- Cygnus
- Da Capo Chamber Players
- Donald Sinta Saxophone Quartet
- Dinosaur Annex
- Duo 46
- Edge Ensemble
- Earplay
- eighth blackbird
- Empyrean Ensemble
- Ensemble 21
- Ensemble Aventure
- Ensemble Intercontemporain
- Ensemble Modern
- Ensemble Signal
- Ensemble Sospeso
- Fulcrum Point New Music Project
- Great Noise Ensemble
- GVSU New Music Ensemble
- Hotel Elefant
- ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)
- Indiana University New Music Ensemble
- Jack Quartet
- The Knights
- Kronos Quartet
- Latitude 49
- Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
- League of Composers/ISCM New York
- Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
- Loadbang
- Locrian Chamber Players
- London Sinfonietta
- Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group
- Manhattan Brass
- Meridian Arts Ensemble
- Monday Evening Concerts
- Musiqa
- Nadia Sirota (violist)
- Network for New Music
- New York New Music Ensemble
- New York Philharmonic CONTACT!
- Newear
- Orchestra 2001
- Ossia
- Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
- Present Music
- PRISM Saxophone Quartet
- Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
- Relache
- Roomful of Teeth
- San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Players
- Seattle Chamber Players
- Sequitar
- S.E.M. Ensemble
- So Percussion
- Society for New Music
- Loadbang
- Sqwonk
- Third Angle New Music Ensemble
- University of Texas-Austin New Music Ensemble
- Voices of Change
- Washington Square Contemporary Music
- Wild Rumpus New Music Collective
- yMusic
- Zzyzx Saxophone Quartet
- Part Making (Scoring Notes)
- Major Orchestral Librarians' Assocation (MOLA) Part Preparation Guidelines
- Mostly Modern Festival Music Preparation Guidelines
- Black Ribbon Printing
- Subito Music Printing
- Behind Bars (The Definitive Guide to Music Notation) by Elaine Gould
*last update 9/11/2018