Using the Collection
The Contemporary Music Score Collection can be accessed through eScholarship, the University of California's open access digital repository.
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About the Collection
Published by the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library in eScholarship(opens in a new tab), the Contemporary Music Score Collection(opens in a new tab) includes digital, open access scores.
How to Submit Your Scores
The Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library offers composers the opportunity to submit works of any length, compositional style and instrumentation for inclusion in the Contemporary Music Score Collection.
To submit your composition for the collection, please complete the Contemporary Music Score Collection Entry Form(opens in a new tab).
Open Access and the Contemporary Music Score Collection
Scores added to the Contemporary Music Score Collection in eScholarship are available open access via the World Wide Web. This will make your scores more readily available for musicians and scholars to download, peruse and study. When you contribute your composition to the collection, you keep full copyright. We invite you to 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 submit previously published work to the collection if you have retained copyright in your compositions. If you have transferred copyright to your publisher, they may submit on your behalf as the copyright owner of the work.
Scores in the collection are shared under a non-exclusive license; the copyright holder can still sell, transfer or license the work.
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Contemporary Music Score Collection Guide
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