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IMSLP's new typesetting guidelines have been posted: http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Typesetting_Guidelines.

The IMSLP Journal article that goes along with it is here: http://imslpjournal.org/new-imslp-music ... uidelines/.

WIMA is not the copyright owner of the Standard Music Notation document. In 2003
WIMA obtained the permission from http://www.mpa.org/ but this address is no longer valid.

Could you please search the right mpa site and ask their permission to post it?

Hi Coulonnus,

There are also smaller resources available on the web, one being the Music Publishers Association of the United States’ Standard Music Notation (http://www.icking-music-archive.org/lis ... tation.pdf – we will post the document if they will let us).

WIMA are hosting it; that says nothing about who published it – the clumsily-expressed “they” in the quote above clearly refers to the MPA of the United States.

Cheers, Philip

Thank you for this guidance and the links to the reference materials. It is very useful to have these practical considerations highlighted.
I will certainly follow them! Gathering best practice together is very helpful. Thanks again
Peter Dyson

Apologies to anyone who tried to link to the document in the first few hours after I posted the guidelines -- the link worked up to about 6 weeks ago, and now is non-existent.

Last night I found the same document on Werner Icking, so I changed the link to the one Philip has posted here.

And yes, "they" was from the original document, which meant MPA. However, with the original link not working, I'm not sure who to ask -- there is the NMPA, which I'm not sure is the the same organization, but when I get some time I will ask them.

In the meantime, the current link in the guidelines gets the same document from Werner Icking, so you can access it.

It seems that one point in these guidelines is easily misunderstood:
There have been recently several uploads of newly typeset scores that are split into separate movements of sometimes single pages each! Someone with somewhat official credentials should gently point out to these typesetters that they should rather adjust the page numbering in a combined pdf than upload dozens of files that each count their pages correctly but separately!
Splitting a score (and more so all the parts) into individual files for all movements should only be done to increase accessibility for the largest scores that otherwise would exceed the recommended size of 20mb.

Examples:
http://imslp.org/wiki/L'Olimpiade,_RV_725_(Vivaldi,_Antonio%29
http://imslp.org/wiki/La_stravaganza,_Op.4_(Vivaldi,_Antonio%29
http://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_in_C_major,_K.6_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus%29
http://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_in_D_major,_K.7_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus%29
http://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_in_ ... major,_K.8_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus%29

My comments were more directed at people who did their Sibelius or Finale files separately by movement, but I will look in the next day or two to see how I can make it clearer.