Would you buy sheet scores?

Say,

If I was to print my piano pieces into normal music book, have them printed professionally, bound, etc... (most probably new pieces that you've not heard) would anyone be interested in buying them?

People who buy sheet music, can I check with them on prices please?

Any other comments would be useful.

Nikolas

I'd pay a tenner for it, probably.

I will never buy those ridiculously priced scores, such as the Schoenberg stuff you see, and so on.

Of course, you'd pay more if it was a 200 page long book, but for a small-ish set of piano things, I'd pay up to a tenner.

I try to make it a habit to buy a few new scores every other time I'm at a store that has some good ones. If I really want one I'll usually buy it along with a few others so I'll never be bored of the same old thing.

I try to keep some new music flowing steadily into my library

Very hard to make any money out of printed music today - even pennies.

The harder the music is (like yours from what I've heard), the less scope there is for profit.

The major money spinners today are in instruction books - and they sell much better if a CD is attached too...and also arrangements of pop songs/ vocal scores.

However, if you already have a following, then you might sell some copies to your fans. I expect to pay about

I know Jeremy Denk and Garrick Ohlsson (sp?) do perform contemporary music. Also there is a 21st century Piano competition in the States you may want to check out. It couldn't hurt to have the exposure. And of course there is always this route:

YouTube - Piano Prelude by Jan Hanford

If Ms Hanford can do it , I imagine you could do far far better (lol)

Heh...

I forgot I made this thread...

I was actually considering composing something new, rather easier, in the form of 12 preludes, or a collection of shorter pieces. This way I could have a book of say 40-50 pages and excuse a price of around 15 GBP/30$. Maybe a collection of etudes, thus trying a little of on the educational side, as well.

I would consider the CD, but I was thinking of 'augmenting' it with other recordings as well, so as to create a full length CD, and sell it normally as well and not part of the book.

I, personally, don't like CDs being part of the book, since they provide a very strong opinion on how the pieces should be played and I'm quite against that. The score should do this job, not the CD.

And yes promotion would include maybe recitals of some of these pieces, probably some videos in youtube, etc. On the idea of well known pianists, I would have to research on that, but I can always play my own stuff!

CO: Linky on the competition, please?

Thanks guys!

Unfortunately I can no longer find the competition - what did come up from a Google search is such a competition in japan:

Auditions and Contests

CO: Thanks for searching for me, but the competition you linked is for pianists, not composers, and it's dated in 2004... :-/ (unless I misread something, since I'm quite in a hurry). :) Thanks bud!

Ah I may have misread it. But I'll do you a favor - I'll link you to a resource I get as a member of the American Music Center which i urge you to join just for this. The fee is modest - I think $65 a year but well worth it.

Below is a sample of October's offerings. If you cannot access it Nikolas pm me.

http://www.amc.net/membersonly/opportunities/OpportunityUpdate.aspx

Please do publish them, I'd be interested to see! For prices it depends.

Yes, definitely. I'd buy them, good quality things are always pleasant to play from!