Engraving & Score Preparation
Professional sheet music and parts that players can actually read
Great notation is invisible. It reads cleanly, rehearses smoothly, and makes performers feel confident before they’ve played a note.
Binary Sky Publishing offers professional engraving for composers, songwriters, bands, educators, and publishers. Whether you’ve written on paper with pen or pencil, or started in Sibelius, Dorico, MuseScore, or you’ve got a PDF that needs fixing, we’ll deliver clear, performance-ready materials.
What we can help with
- Full scores and parts (chamber, ensemble, band, orchestral)
- Lead sheets and chord charts
- Score cleanup and layout fixes
- Transposition checks and part preparation
- Rehearsal marks, cues, page turns, and practical readability tweaks
- Print-ready formatting for digital sales or physical print
What you receive
- Print-ready PDF score
- Print-ready PDF parts (where applicable)
- Clear file naming and organised delivery
- Optional where agreed: MusicXML and source files
What to send us
- Best source you have: The original hand written score, or your Sibelius, Dorico, MuseScore, MusicXML or PDF file
- Instrumentation and any layout preferences (A4/A3, part size)
- Any deadline you’re working to
- Any known problem spots (repeats, divisi, cues, ossias)
Pricing
Engraving is quoted based on length and complexity. If you want a quick starting point, tell us what it is, how many pages, and what deliverables you need, and we’ll respond with a clear quote and timeline before any work begins.
What happens after you submit
Once we receive your engraving request, we’ll review the files and confirm scope, turnaround, and a clear quote before any work begins.
This is an example of the workflow we provide:
- Confirmation of deliverables (score, parts, file formats) and any layout preferences
- A quote and timeline, based on page count and complexity
- A proof stage where appropriate, so you can check obvious details before final export
- Final delivery as clean, print-ready PDFs with clear file naming
- Return of the source file and the newly created score file if you require it.
If we spot anything that could affect readability or rehearsal flow, we’ll flag it early and recommend the best fix.