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.
To submit your materials, please contact Mei-Chen Lu, Director of Library Services, at library@dancenotation.org
We are here to assist you every step of the way.
FORMAT REQUIREMENTS FOR SCORE SUBMISSION
Title Page
- Title of the dance (please specify if it is an excerpt from a larger work)
- Choreographer and year of choreography
- Music title, composer and year of composition
- Notator and year of score completion
- Revision, Version, Edition, Adaptation, or Reconstruction (please refer to Codifying DNB Score and Cataloguing)
Back of the title Page
- Date of premiere and name of company
- Date of notated version and name of staging company
- Running time of the work
- Notation check (if applicable)
- Movement check (if applicable)
- Introductory Material/Glossary/Notation update (if applicable)
- Notation graphics (if applicable)
- Transcription (if applicable)
- Artist’s restriction notice (if applicable)
- Copyright notice(if applicable), placed at the bottom of the page
Third Page
- Acknowledgment of benefactor/sponsor (if applicable)
Fourth Page
- Blank page
Introductory Material
- Table of contents
- Description of the work/choreography
- Original and notated cast lists
- Casting information
Production information including costume, lighting, set and/or props - Music background/information
- Videotapes/DVD information
- Photographs
- Notes to stager
- Bibliography of books or articles about the work and/or choreographer
- Glossary
OTHER SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS WE VALUE
Marked music score
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
Unmarked music score
- Title of the dance, choreographer, date of choreography, notator, date of notation
Audio recording (CD or mp3)
- 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
Audiovisual (DVD or mp4)
- 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
Press Materials (articles and reviews)
- Source
- Date of publication
Photographs (PDF or JPEG)
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
Production information
- costume swatches and sketches
- lighting plots
- prop/set designs
- designer’s contact information
Programs, posters, and fliers
MISSING CONTENT
Reference materials
Copyright owner’s contact information
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