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and MorningStar Music Publishers. Each imprint has sible to the artist and audience.
a unique market with E. C. Schirmer publishing high- Think about Graphite as an art gallery rather than a
quality concert and sacred music, Galaxy focusing on museum. In a museum one will find one or two works
High School and Collegiate publishing, and Morning- by many different artists in an effort to represent a cer-
Star publishing traditional sacred music. The editors tain style, or period. A gallery represents a few artists,
look at all difficulty levels and also make decisions as to artists who create with a similar view to excellence and
the appropriate market for each publication. Publica- skill. Here you’ll find a large catalog of music by a cul-
tions from the ECS Publishing Group are distributed tivated list of composers.
by all major music dealers and have wide distribution
in Europe as well. Publisher name: MusicSpoke
Website: https://musicspoke.com
Publisher name: GIA Publications, Inc. Submissions: notes@musicspoke.com
Website: www.giamusic.com
Submissions: submissions@giamusic.com MusicSpoke is like Etsy for composers. We are build-
ing the world’s largest marketplace for artist-owned
Founded in 1941, GIA Publications, Inc. is a family- sheet music. We make it easy for musicians to purchase
owned company with more than 10,000 choral and in- sheet music by allowing them to hear and see the en-
strumental editions in print, as well as hymnals, record- tire score before purchasing, and our entire inventory is
ings, a licensing division, and a wide variety of music available for immediate digital download. Composers
education resources. Our sacred music division serves love MusicSpoke because they retain copyrights and
both Catholic churches and Protestant denominations control over their scores, earn more money compared
with a wide variety of liturgical music from chant to to traditional publisher royalties, and know who is pur-
high church to contemporary worship music in a range chasing and performing their music.
of difficulty levels. Our music education division serves Since its founding in 2014, MusicSpoke has put
students and educators at all levels with high-quality nearly a half a million dollars directly in the pockets of
music and resources. Visit our website for more infor- artists. We are especially proud of the work we are do-
mation regarding submissions. ing through the ICON series, with conductors like Der-
rick Fox and Sandra Snow, to bring underrepresented
Publisher name: Graphite Publishing composers from this county and others to the choral
Website: www.graphitepublishing.com ensembles in the United States.
Submissions: hagen@graphitepublishing.com
Publisher name: Oxford University Press
Graphite Publishing is an online vocal music pub- Website: www.oup.com/music
lisher of digital scores. Graphite publishes quality Submissions: https://global.oup.com/
compositions where excellence and accessibility meet: academic/category/arts-and-humanities/sheet-
unique yet emotional; challenging yet appealing; inno- music/submissions/
vative and enjoyable to experience.
Graphite promotes talented composers and qual- Oxford University Press is one of the longest-estab-
ity new music, music that has the power and ability lished and most respected music publishers in the world,
to enhance any concert program. Some concert mu- with a distinguished heritage that began in 1923. Emi-
sic pushes musical frontiers but compromises audience nent composers published in those early days included
comprehension and enjoyment. Some tips the scale William Walton and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Today,
heavily toward accessibility. Graphite evens the balance OUP builds on this and is proud to publish world-re-
by cultivating excellent composers who can write vocal nowned composers including Bob Chilcott, Reena Es-
music with distinction and craft and yet are still acces- mail, Cecilia McDowall, Sarah Quartel, John Rutter,

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