Composer Guidelines
"We regret that our publishing schedules are now full for 2007/8 and therefore we are currently unable to accept any new scores for consideration. Please note that we will not be able to respond to any submissions until further notice. Hardcopy scores sent by post will not be returned."
One of SXP's objectives is to encourage high quality and well crafted new writing for saxophones, likely to appeal to the international saxophone market. However, our publishing schedules are almost always full, and only a very small proportion of submitted work is suitable for publication.
To ensure that we will even consider your work, please check that it complies with the following guidelines. Please note that compliance cannot guarantee publication.
Your work must be for:
- solo saxophone(s) (including studies, duets, trios, sax & piano, concertos, sax and string quartet, or other works featuring the sax, e.g. soprano sax and harp, baritone sax and organ).
- saxophone ensemble (sax quartet, sax quintet, sax choir).
We do not accept scores which simply include saxes in a mixed ensemble (e.g. wind band or other band music, chamber ensembles).
Although the catalogue has small flute, clarinet and oboe sections, we are only accepting pieces from our current composers for these instrumentations.
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Submitted scores must be your own work, not in print with another publisher, and not be subject to any copyright restrictions. If it is an arrangement of your own original work for other instruments, you must state this clearly.
We do occasionally publish arrangements, but you must provide evidence that the original is out of copyright (see the Music Publishers Association FAQs), or that you have obtained permission to arrange it, and the full terms of that permission. We will not publish duplicates of arrangements already in the catalogue.
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Music must be submitted in Sibelius 2, 3, 4 or Sibelius Student. We only require scores at this stage. Parts must be presented in treble clef as read by saxophonists, not at concert pitch. The score must be in finished, not draft form (i.e with all dynamics, articulation and other performance directions clearly legible). Incomplete or indecipherable scores will not be considered.
Good playback quality is essential for our initial assessment.
Scores which are not in Sibelius will not be considered under any circumstances.
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We will only consider scores which are submitted by email. (It is essential that you are able to communicate regularly via e-mail and have internet access as our publishing procedure is done exclusively on-line).
Scores submitted by post or other means will not be considered and will not be returned.
We are currently unable to accept any new scores for consideration.
