Publisher of editions of early and contemporary music for voices and instruments. Music Typesetting. Located in Albany, California. Cotswold Music Typesetting produces publishable-quality printed music at very competitive rates. Graham Pike (sole proprietor) has nearly fifteen years experience of Music Typesetting and has supplied Faber Music and Queen's Temple Publications, amongst others.

Latest versions of Finale and Sibelius are used, so we can accept music in any format, be it manuscript or a computer file (including MIDI or MusicXML). Finished works can be supplied as hard copy, as PDF files, or as Finale or Sibelius files. Since no two jobs are the same, it would be misleading to provide prices on this website (though it is not misleading to say that we offer pretty good value for money!). Please do e-mail, 'phone or write for further information. Music notation software can be classified into the two overlapping categories of music scoring and Music Typesetting. Scoring software may be thought of as the composer's assistant, that is, the virtual music manuscript. A GUI usually is associated with software in this category, and it typically presents a graphic representation of a staff display and a palette or palettes of common music symbols. The interface may be controlled with the mouse; the computer keyboard; an external MIDI device, such as keyboard, MIDI guitar or wind controller; or any combination of those controls. In addition, it usually is possible to import a MIDI file for conversion to notation.

To work with music scoring software, the user first selects notation objects from a symbol palette and enters them onto a staff display. This often occurs with real-time audio as notes are placed on the staff. Playback usually is available whenever the user wishes to audition his work from any point in the score. When the notation is complete, it can be saved or exported in a variety of formats, such as PostScript and Adobe PDF, for printing; a MIDI file, for playing or editing in a MIDI sequencer; or MusicXML, for interchange with other notation programs. Linux music notation editors in this category include NoteEdit, MuseScore and the Rosegarden audio/MIDI sequencer.

Music Typesetting software prepares publication-quality music scores. The user writes a specification file that encodes the details of his score. The file then is processed by the typesetting program. Output usually occurs in a scalable graphics format that can be printed with common printing tools and a PostScript-compatible printer. Given a powerful enough typesetting specification language, every detail of a score's appearance can be defined as needed for perfectly readable and beautifully printed music. Linux has inherited powerful text preparation software from its UNIX lineage, including the TeX and PostScript formatting and printing environments. These tools were designed to render high-quality displays to high-resolution plotters and printers. It did not take long for the necessary fonts, macros, symbols and other elements to be combined to form powerful Music Typesetting packages. In fact, TeX is a required component for some of the applications profiled in this article series.