Music engraving and type setting

Music engraving and type setting

The Art of Music specialises in very high quality typesetting, both of music and of text. Using the best tools available, we have produced a range of publications that have been acclaimed not only by their commissioning writers but also in the national press.

Several thousand pages (or several kilogrammes weight) have been produced using Score and InDesign.

Our portfolio includes the following works

• Church House Publishing
  • Common Worship: President's Edition – music section
  • Common Worship: Festivals – music section
• The Corbridge Music Festival
  • publicity leaflets (2004–2008)
• Diocese of Arundel and Brighton
  • A Pilgrim People: Shaping the Church to Come
    (a pastoral letter by Rt Rev Cormac Murphy O'Connor, 1998)
  • liturgy booklets (Rite of Election, Chrism Mass, Mystagogia: 2001–2008)
• The Early English Organ Project
  • publicity leaflet (download PDF)
• Goldberg Ensemble
  • publicity leaflets for 2006, 2007 and 2008 "Coffee Concerts"
• Sally Harper
• Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650 (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007)
• Bearers of Song: A Festschrift for Meredydd Evans and Phyllis Kinney
  (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2007)
• Welsh Music History VII (Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2007)
• The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society
  • Compline in traditional language (details and sample pages)
  • The Play of Daniel ed. David Wulstan (details and sample page)
• The Royal School of Church Music
  • Come, Lord, Come (ed. John Harper; RSCM Press, 1998)
  • Mass for All Seasons (John Harper; RSCM Press, 1999)
  • Music for Common Worship I – VII (RSCM Press, 1995 – 2005)
  • The Welsh Eucharist / Cymun y Cymry (RSCM Press, 2004)
  • Exsultet – for Easter Vigil
• St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow
  • publicity leaflets for Thomas Trotter organ recitals (download PDF)
• Sam Baker School of Church Music "Aspirans"
  • publicity leaflet and stationery

Comments received

• "very impressive, stylish and professional - and clearly something to be proud of"
  "the type-setting of these texts and their music is impeccably clear"
  "the type setting is exemplary" (Music for Common Worship I-III)
• "They are splendid! A real gift to the Church of England. Congratulations and many thanks."
  "it is going to make a very handsome publication" (PMMS Compline)
• "looks terrific" (Chrism Mass service booklet)
• "Very many thanks. They look great." (Ludlow organ recital leaflets)
• "that looks great – thank you so much for doing such a wonderful job"
  "everyone is delighted with the leaflets – thank you so much." (Corbridge Festival leaflets)
• "my warmest thanks go to Mr Alistair Warwick of The Art of Music, who has designed and typeset this book with characteristic expertise and great good humour, tolerating my last-minute requests for revisions and additions" (Sally Harper: Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650)