Notes 2 Paper Score Style Guide

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Table of Contents
I.
Page Setup and Formatting ................................................................................................. 1
Margins ...................................................................................................................................... 1
Page Numbering....................................................................................................................... 2
Page Size .................................................................................................................................... 3
II. Score Preferences .................................................................................................................. 4
Score Styles ................................................................................................................................ 4
Measure Numbering ................................................................................................................ 5
Fonts ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Standard Notation ................................................................................................................ 5
Song Lyric Sheets .................................................................................................................. 6
Header and Footer Specifics ................................................................................................... 7
Title Page ................................................................................................................................... 8
III.
Score Ideas.......................................................................................................................... 8
Novelties .................................................................................................................................... 8
IV.
Checklist ............................................................................................................................. 9
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Welcome Notes 2 Paper Customer!
Thank you in your interest in letting us prepare your personal sheet music. This guide
has been created to inform you on all of the possibilities that we have to offer so your
sheet music is presented the way you want it. We understand that it’s hard to think of
all the choices you actually have when getting a score prepared. By outlining all of
these options, we hope it makes your experience with us easier in deciding exactly how
you want your score to appear. We promise to give you the best looking score
regardless of what style you choose, so go on and have fun personalizing it!
I.
Page Setup and Formatting
Margins
By default, page margins are set at 10mm (.39 inches) on the left, right and top. The
bottom margin is 20mm (.78 inches). They can always be adjusted to suit your needs at
the time you review your score setup.
A special scenario may be if you wanted scales or exercises printed out from a lesson
you may be teaching or attending, and you wanted space out to the side for comments
or notes:
Figure 1. Music exercise with wide margin for notes
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Page Numbering
The page numbering of your score can be shown in a variety of ways. Unless otherwise
specified, we will not put a page number on a single page piece of music. For scores
with more than one page, we will still omit the number on the first page, but we will
number the remaining pages on the lower outside corner (lower left for even pages,
lower right for odd). This would be as if you were presenting the printed score as a
booklet with odd pages on the front and even pages on the back. See below.
Figure 2. Default Page
Numbering for Multi-Page Scores
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You may decide on a more personal page numbering scheme, like all pages, bottom
center or top right. You may be creating a songbook of some of your recorded or
handwritten music and you want the page numbering to be continuous from piece to
piece (i.e. the third piece of the book starting on page seven). Whatever you decide,
we’ll make sure the pages are numbered to your liking.
Page Size
The default page size is letter (8-1/2 X 11 in.), but you may choose from any page size.
We can format our scores to fit any size, custom or standard. From small marching
scores (7 X 5-1/2 in.) to conductor size (A3, B4); anything in between or outside. The
standard sizes are listed below:
Size
Letter
Tabloid (Ledger)
Legal
Executive
Statement
Comm10E
DLE
Folio
A0
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6
A7
A8
A9
A10
B0
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
B9
B10
Width (in.)
Height (in.)
Width (mm)
8-1/2
11
215.9
11
17
279
8-1/2
14
215.9
7-1/2
10
190.5
5-1/2
8-1/2
139.7
4.13
9.49
105
4.33
8.66
110
8.27
12.99
210
33.11
46.81
841
23.39
33.11
594
16.54
23.39
420
11.69
16.54
297
8.27
11.69
210
5.83
8.27
148
4.13
5.83
105
2.91
4.13
74
2.05
2.91
52
1.46
2.05
37
1.02
1.46
26
39.37
55.67
1000
27.83
39.37
707
19.69
27.83
500
13.9
19.69
353
9.84
13.9
250
6.93
9.84
176
4.92
6.93
125
3.46
4.92
88
2.44
3.46
62
1.73
2.44
44
1.22
1.73
31
Table 1. Standard Page Sizes
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Height (mm)
279.4
432
355.6
254
215.9
241
220
330
1189
841
594
420
297
210
148
105
74
52
37
1414
1000
707
500
353
250
176
125
88
62
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II.
Score Preferences
This section deals with how you would like the actual music in the score to appear.
This also includes any text within the music as well as titles, subtitles, movement labels,
composers, lyricists, etc.
Score Styles
There are two basic score styles used when creating our sheet music, standard and jazz.
Unless otherwise indicated, the standard style will be used. The difference between the
standard and jazz styles is best explained by showing the differences. The jazz score
style has more of a handwritten quality to it. See the examples below.
Figure 3. Standard Style (Default)
Figure 4. Jazz Style
Choose whichever style you want to use. Just let us now if you want the jazz style for
your music, otherwise… standard it is!
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Measure Numbering
There are a lot of possibilities when numbering measures. You may not like them at all,
you may want them on every measure, or something in between. By default, Notes 2
Paper numbers the first measure of each system, omitting the first measure as shown in
the example below. You may want them at different intervals (like every eight or
sixteen bars). Any regular interval is possible for numbering measures.
Figure 5. Score showing measure numbering at the beginning of each system.
Fonts
Standard Notation
Notes 2 Paper can use different fonts for your titles, subtitles and authors. We can even
make the text within the score (lyrics, chord symbols, dynamic and articulatory text) a
different font if you desire.
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The default font for the standard score style is FreeSerif:
For the jazz score style, the MuseJazz font is used:
If you wish to have a font other than the default fonts in your score, simply indicate
what you want modified and the font desired (i.e. subtitle Brittanic Bold) and submit
your request to contact@notes2paper.com or indicate it when you submit your order on
the website.
You may use any of the fonts in Microsoft Office -- or choose one of the examples
below:
Algerian
Bauhaus 93
Blackadder
Elephant
Forte
Freestyle Script
Bakersville Old Face
Bernard MT Condensed
Brittanic Bold
Broadway
Brush Script MT
Castellar
Chiller
Colonna MT
Georgia
Gigi
Impact
Jokerman
Kunstler Script Kunstler Script
Lucida Console
Lucida Hand
Magneto
Matura MT
Modern No. 20
Comic Sans MS
Curlz
Mistral
Old English Text
Papyrus
Playhill
Ravie
Rockwell
Showcard Gothic
Snap ITC
Stencil
Viner Hand ITC
Vivaldi
Vladimir Script Vladimir Script
Wide Latin
Song Lyric Sheets
For lyric sheets with no music (just chord symbols), the default font is Times New
Roman. However, any MS Office font or one from the above list can be chosen.
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Header and Footer Specifics
Not only can you change the fonts on your title, but you may also design it so it’s
thematic to your music. For example, you can have an artistic title such as the example
below that may contain an image. If you would like an image on your score, simply
send it with your other audio and/or scanned files when you request your order and
explain how you would like it placed.
Figure 6. Artistic Title
For your footer, we can put any copyright information about your music if it’s available
and you want it on there. It can be justified left, center or right and placed either on the
first page only or all pages.
By default, Notes 2 Paper places a footer at the bottom of each piece of music we
transcribe, engrave or otherwise edit that reads “Notes 2 Paper.” It will appear below
the copyright information and/or above the page numbering as applicable. If you wish
for this to not be on your music, let us know.
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Title Page
You can always put a title page on your score or songbook. A table of contents can be
added to show where songs or movements start also. Even if we don’t transcribe the
music, we can create a professional looking score for you on any page size.
Figure 7. Score with Title Page
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Score Ideas
So far we have shown you some of the common formatting and score style choices that
you have for your sheet music. But it really doesn’t end there. We all want our music
to look nice and professional, easy to read and accurate, but creativity is boundless and
with that, here are a few extra things to think about that may not be thought of at first
but can be done using sheet music.
Novelties
You don’t have to use your music to perform or learn from. Maybe you want a song
that you have written or just like and you want to frame the sheet music and hang it up.
It really doesn’t matter what you use the music for… if you have a recording or
something handwritten we can reproduce it accurately and exactly the way you want it
to appear! Maybe you make doll carolers and you want them holding tiny pieces of
sheet music in their hands. We can custom size any music for you! Let your mind get
creative and remember you can always rely on Notes 2 Paper for any sheet music you or
a friend may need. Nothing is impossible!
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Checklist
Use this checklist to guide you through deciding on your sheet music preferences.
Title(s): ________________________________________________________________________
Page Margins
󠆧 Default (10mm top, left, right; 20mm bottom)
󠆧 Custom: Top__________ Left__________ Right__________ Bottom__________
Page Numbering
󠆧 Default (no page number on first page; odd pages lower right, even lower left)
󠆧 No page numbering
󠆧 Other: First Page? 󠆧 Yes 󠆧 No Page Position___________________________________
OR Odd Page Position___________________ Even Page Position_________________________
Page Size
󠆧 Default (8-1/2 X 11 in.)
󠆧 Standard Size from chart (Table 1): ____________________
󠆧 Custom: Width______________ Height_________________
Score Style
󠆧 Standard (Default)
󠆧 Jazz
Measure Numbering
󠆧 Default (first measure of each system, omitting measure 1)
󠆧 No measure numbering
󠆧 Other interval: Every __________ measures
Omit measure 1?
󠆧Yes (default) or
󠆧 No
Fonts
󠆧 Default (FreeSerif for Standard style, MuseJazz for Jazz style)
󠆧 Custom (fill in desired font for each item below):
Title:
__________________________
Subtitle:
__________________________
Composer:
__________________________
Lyricist:
__________________________
Lyrics:
__________________________
Chords:
__________________________
Tempo:
__________________________
Dyn./Art.:
__________________________
Other:
__________________________
__________________________
Title Page:
Header Image:
󠆧 Yes
󠆧 Yes
󠆧 No (Default)
󠆧 No
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