Get your own Free Home PageSo you want to submit your choral works for publication, but you have an inexplicable fear of success? Not to worry! Just follow the tips below, and you are guaranteed to be rejected!
Yes, music publishers are particularly impressed with manuscripts that reflect your tortured soul with its ink smudges, coffee stains, and completely illegible notation. You'll get an immediate response with this!
Why go to all the trouble of writing out every rinky-dink note? I'm sure they can figure out what you meant.
Many publishing houses have lawyers on the payroll-- Why not put them to work? They love to defend lawsuits on behalf of some schmuck composer they've never heard of!
Tell them how well received your piece was in the concert at the local Moose lodge. The editorial committee will be very impressed with your mom's lofty opinion of your work!
Put all your interesting material near the end of the piece. Publishers love to plow through 150 measures of drivel to get to the good part. It makes the job interesting!
You can never have too many Psalm 23's or Ave Maria's. Add yours to the pile!
Keep those publishers on their toes! If they specialize in traditional Catholic motets, send them a new choral arrangment of "Hell's Bells".
Send them music that no one in their right mind would want to hear.
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