Resonate 2024: An Open Access Call for Scores

The submission period for Resonate 2024: An Open Access Call for Scores is now open. The application deadline is Wednesday, July 31, 2024.

This project seeks saxophone, percussion and piano works through an open call for scores, led by UCLA music performance professor Jan Berry Baker and administered by the UCLA Music Library. One winning composer, selected by an independent judging panel and Atlanta-based professional contemporary music ensemble Bent Frequency, will receive a $750 prize and a performance of their work in the ensemble's 2024-25 season.

Submission of works to the Contemporary Music Score Collection is encouraged, but optional.

Please see our application procedures for details about eligibility, requirements and selection criteria.

Open access publishing of your scores with the UCLA Music Library will make your scores more readily available for musicians and scholars to download, peruse and study. Open access publications are digital, online and freely available information. The scores will be widely available globally and published online through the University of California's eScholarship(opens in a new tab) site. Unlike many traditional publishing agreements, you can choose to keep full copyright and have better control of performances and royalties. The open access scores published by the UCLA Music Library are like online perusal scores provided by some publishers, but presented in a scholarly and academic performance context. Please view the Contemporary Music Score Collection(opens in a new tab) and decide if you would like to add your scores to this growing repository.

You may be able to submit a previously published work to the Contemporary Music Score Collection. If you have transferred copyright to a publisher, you cannot submit your score for open access publishing. But if you are the sole copyright holder, you can submit it to publish with the UCLA Music Library as an open access publication even if you have previously self-published the score. You are the sole copyright holder if the work is completely your own and you haven’t transferred copyright to a publisher or distributor. If your work includes text or music that is not by you or is not in the public domain (lyrics or music arrangement), you are not the sole copyright holder.

If you add your score to the collection, you will still be free to sell or transfer ownership of your music as you wish. You will also be able to log in and withdraw or update your score as needed.

If you have previously submitted a piece to the Contemporary Music Score Collection that you would like to be considered this year for performance at UCLA, please complete the entry form, using the name and title on your score in eScholarship and follow the instructions you receive to submit the anonymous score.

For questions about the UCLA Music Library and the Contemporary Music Score Collection, please contact Matthew Vest.

For press requests, please contact Ariane Bicho.

For questions about Bent Frequency, please contact Jan Berry Baker(opens in a new tab).