Who are we?
Clear Music Australia Pty Ltd is a specialist supplier of printed music to conductors, orchestras, choirs, opera companies, libraries, ensembles, teachers, schools and performers across Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Our team has many decades of experience in music supply, publishing and research.

How can we help you and your library?
Clear Music offers a music acquisitions service, separate to a standard library purchase request, where we carefully select and recommend important new releases from a wide variety of the world’s music publishers on a regular basis. We assist in the collection development of conservatorium and tertiary music libraries, and customise the selection and focus of repertoire for each library while working within their budget.

We streamline the process of music selections, purchase, supply, and checking of holdings to avoid duplication, before acquisition of music scores commences. We have already been working with conservatoriums and tertiary music libraries across Australia for the regular supply of their music orders for the past 18 years.

What are our selection criteria?
Our recommendations will be:

• Highly selective and systematic

• Reputable and authoritative editions of the highest quality

• Consulted through a broad range of publisher databases, review journals, discographies, online sources, and vendor/distributor mailings representing a vast number of editions from many publishing sources

• Focused on current and future teaching, learning and research in music, and all areas of music performance

We work closely with all the world’s music publishers, such as Bärenreiter, Breitkopf & Härtel, Henle, Durand-Salabert-Eschig, Boosey & Hawkes, Schott, Universal Edition, and Oxford University Press, just to name a few, and we order regularly from distribution channels worldwide, from Europe, UK, North America, Asia, Australia, and beyond.

Can the selection be tailored to your library?
The Music Acquisition Profile can embrace any or all of the following areas:

1. New publications of sheet music and music literature from antiquity to the present day, thoughtfully selected and relevant to the needs of academics and students in Music Performance, Education, Composition, Musicology and Music Pedagogy

2. Collected editions, complete works, historical sets, monuments of music, and thematic catalogues of major composers, as comprehensively as necessary to support curricular needs, performance and research.

3. Newly edited, high-quality scholarly and performing editions of standard works, which include study scores, performance parts for all instrumental studies, chamber music and ensemble, orchestral, operatic works, music theatre studies, vocal and choral. These editions span across all music genres including classical, jazz, popular and contemporary music, film and television, game music, folk, traditional, and world music (i.e., art and vernacular traditions outside of Western art music).

4. Music education materials, including instrumental and vocal technique and method books for undergraduate study and research, with emphasis on both historical and contemporary pedagogy.

5. Books on music study and research, especially if they are published by music publishers.

6. Specially printed large full scores of performance repertoire for conductors, where these scores are normally only available on hire.

7. Dramatico-musical repertoire (operas/ballets) including performance histories and criticisms.

8. Audio-visual materials that are available from the music publisher supply chain.

9. Highly selective rare reproduction of music manuscripts and facsimile editions for musicology research.

10. Australian Music. Clear Music can liaise with Australian publishers such as Australian Music Centre, Wirripang, Wildbird, Brolga, Thorpe, and more, to make sure the Australian publication content is up to date. This also includes publications by Indigenous Australian composers such as Nardi Simpson, Deborah Cheetham, William Barton, Brenda Gifford, and many others.

What is the next step?
If your library is interested in setting up a music profile with Clear Music, please get in touch with us at info@clearmusic.com.au