Submitting A Score

The Dance Notation Bureau’s mission is to preserve and provide access to the invaluable dance scores for performance, educational use, and scholarly research.

Below, you will find details on how to submit your score along with necessary ancillary materials and formatting requirements. Additionally, we offer downloadable template forms for those interested in archiving their scores with us.

For a notated score, we kindly request both a hard copy and an electronic version. This ensures that we can accurately verify all symbols and layouts when printing from file.

FORMAT REQUIREMENTS FOR SCORE SUBMISSION

Title Page

OTHER SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS WE VALUE

The submitted music score should be marked with the following, as applicable —

  • Title of the dance, choreographer, date of choreography, notator, date of notation
  • Composer and/or arranger
  • Year composed
  • Publisher’s information
  • Section of music used and/or not used, and in what order if not following the composer’s sequence
  • Information on music cuts and indication of musical repeats which are eliminated or added
  • Measure numbers, numbered to correspond with the dance score
  • Dancer’s counts corresponding with the dance score
  • Identification of thematic movement and movement cues that will help the stager and musician/conductor
  • Sectional markings that appear on the dance score
  • Entrances and exits
  • Technical cues, e.g. lighting and curtain
  • Approximate time lapse between sections
  • Title of the dance, choreographer, date of choreography, notator, date of notation
  • Title of the dance and choreographer
  • Name of music
  • Composer and/or arranger
  • Source of the recording, e.g. performing group, conductor, etc
  • Recording number, e.g. Columbia Recording #KUL204 (if applicable)
  • Speed of the tape, e.g. 7 1/2 ips(if applicable)
  • Date of recording
  • Special editing instructions, e.g. length of leader to be inserted at the beginning or between sections (if applicable)
  • Rehearsal/performance quality
  • Title of the dance and choreographer
  • University/Dance Company
  • Date and place of performance/rehearsal
  • Performers
  • Stager (if applicable)
  • Coach (if applicable)
  • Videographer
  • Close-up or wide shot
  • Quality of tape/DVD
  • Source
  • Date of publication

Label following information on the back of each photograph —

  • Photographer
  • Performers and university/company
  • Date of photograph
  • List page and measure number in the score if photograph corresponding movement in the score
  • Note of a posed shot that does not correspond to an actual movement in the dance
  • Source

  • costume swatches and sketches
  • lighting plots
  • prop/set designs
  • designer’s contact information

MISSING CONTENT

Related to choreography (book, poem, film, etc)
Information on how we can contact the copyright holders (choreographer, composer, company or estate). If they have provided you with written permissions for access to the score, we will need that for our records. We encourage efforts to release the scores for educational use in the classroom (not the same as using the score for performance). Information on who licenses the work for performance would be very helpful.

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