<p>I can tell you that I just about tore out my hair going back multiple times to Kinko’s to get the scores bound right, so no, they won’t know what to do unless you tell them, and even then, you need to check every single page of every copy, to make sure they are in the right order and are right side up. I can’t tell you the name of the binding my son insisted on, but it was a tight kind of spiral binding. The paper (according to him) had to be heavier gauge than normal copy paper.</p>
<p>I second Hunt’s recommendation to monitor the score copying process carefully. It took two tries at our local Staples before they got it right. We used a flat rather than spiral binding and a clear cover.</p>
<p>Ultimately, it’s the notes on the page that matter but it undoubtedly helps to have the product look nice as well.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Glad to hear your son is enjoying Yale, Hunt. I hope that continues to be the case. I’m also glad to hear that there are lots of opportunities to have his music played. What direction would he go if he chose not to major in music? I think my son’s friend is trying to chose between music and biology. </p>
<p>Such dilemmas are precisely the reason my son chose a double degree program. He didn’t want to choose between his academic and musical interests. If he had his way, he’d pick up two grad degrees as well — in Environmental Law and violin/composition/conducting. Wait, that’s four degrees, isn’t it? Somewhere along the line, he’ll have to choose.</p>
<p>My son thinks he might like political science, or maybe something else entirely…he might be able to double major, as long as he picks something that’s not in the sciences.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is any standard way to do the “professionally bound” scores. But yes, do go over them. It can be tricky and sometimes we found part of a page cut off.</p>
<p>Finale and Sibelius scores are pretty straightforward but our daughter had some pieces on that very large manuscript paper (that comes in both horizontal and vertical formats), and they were very difficult to copy, cut right, and bind.</p>
<p>There needs to be a blank strip along the left hand side for the holes, if done with a spiral binding.</p>
<p>She did clear covers with a title page for the Finale ones, and the cover for the manuscript paper ones was a spiral, with plain white almost cardboard cover on front and back. Title page and score inside. She used a label with typewritten name, degree, school, titale etc.</p>
<p>The schools give instructions on how to label the CD’s and cases.</p>
<p>Quick update: I got an in-person interview with the U of Michigan Composition faculty! I didn’t end up sending the recordings or an update of one of my scores, so I’m pretty ecstatic. I’ll have a lot to show at the interview, I guess.</p>
<p>As far as binding goes, I looked at the Peabody website and they say the standard size for orchestral scores is 11"x17". I set the document up in Sibelius to fit 11"x17", put it in a flash drive and took it over to Staples. I drew out a diagram specifying every detail (cardstock cover, spiral-bound, 2 copies of the title page, performance notes on back of second title page, start musical score on front of page, blank cardstock ending page, 10 copies by 12 PM the next day) and gave that to the Staples people to keep. The diagram was much simpler. No problem, whatsoever. They called me at 10 AM to tell me they were ready for pickup.
I come back every so often to the same Staples and they know what to do.</p>
<p>I had a horrible time at Kinko’s. Since Staples isn’t open 24 hours and since we don’t have one around, we drove 40 minutes to the closest one. I walked up and they didn’t greet us for a while. I told them I needed something to print and the guy walks up and just sticks his hand out for my flash drive without asking which files or any other specifications. After I intervened and he did some figuring, he tells me he can’t do the binding because it’ll cost too much and laughed. I told them Staples did it and he said, “they must got some special machine 'cause we can’t do that.” I said thank you and left Kinko’s forever.</p>
<p>My point being… I got an in-person interview with the U of Michigan Composition faculty!</p>
<p>@shinster</p>
<p>Congrats on having interview!
I’m just wondering, are you turning your application into Peabody now?</p>
<p>Sorry, the above portion of my last post was a reply to another thread with the same title. How about that!</p>
<p>@smilemask10: Thank you! I applied to UMich, Peabody, Eastman, NEC and UMKC. UMich is my first choice, Peabody being second. I just applied to the others to have options. Don’t want to put all of my eggs in one basket.</p>