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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



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



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 Width (in.) Height (in.) Width (mm) Height (mm) Letter 8-1/2 11 215.9 279.4 Tabloid (Ledger) 11 17 279 432 Legal 8-1/2 14 215.9 355.6 Executive 7-1/2 10 190.5 254 Statement 5-1/2 8-1/2 139.7 215.9 Comm10E 4.13 9.49 105 241 DLE 4.33 8.66 110 220 Folio 8.27 12.99 210 330 A0 33.11 46.81 841 1189 A1 23.39 33.11 594 841 A2 16.54 23.39 420 594 A3 11.69 16.54 297 420 A4 8.27 11.69 210 297 A5 5.83 8.27 148 210 A6 4.13 5.83 105 148 A7 2.91 4.13 74 105 A8 2.05 2.91 52 74 A9 1.46 2.05 37 52 A10 1.02 1.46 26 37 B0 39.37 55.67 1000 1414 B1 27.83 39.37 707 1000 B2 19.69 27.83 500 707 B3 13.9 19.69 353 500 B4 9.84 13.9 250 353 B5 6.93 9.84 176 250 B6 4.92 6.93 125 176 B7 3.46 4.92 88 125 B8 2.44 3.46 62 88 B9 1.73 2.44 44 62 B10 1.22 1.73 31 44

Table 1. Standard Page Sizes



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!



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.



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 [email protected] 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 Elephant Mistral

Bauhaus 93 Forte Old English Text

Blackadder Freestyle Script Papyrus Bakersville Old Face Georgia Playhill

Bernard MT Condensed Gigi Ravie Brittanic Bold Impact Rockwell

Broadway Jokerman Showcard Gothic

Brush Script MT Kunstler Script Kunstler Script Snap ITC Castellar Lucida Console Stencil

Chiller Lucida Hand Viner Hand ITC Colonna MT Magneto Vivaldi Comic Sans MS Matura MT Vladimir Script Vladimir Script

Curlz Modern No. 20 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.



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

III. 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!



IV. 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: 󠆧 Yes 󠆧 No (Default)

Header Image: 󠆧 Yes 󠆧 No

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