Musikeon produces a variety of text types individually tailored to the client’s requirements. The style of writing is adapted to the text’s intended readership and conforms to three basic lines:

• General interest: texts which are readily understandable, in terms both of
  syntactical structure and content, requiring no previous specific musical knowledge.
• Scholarly: technical texts in line with up-to-date musicological research, aimed at
  a readership familiar with specialized language.
• Experimental: imaginative texts, designed for innovative aesthetic and ideological
  purposes.

They may include historical, stylistic and aesthetic contents informed by up-to-date research. Because texts vary radically, depending on their intended readership, in each case we decide in consultation with our client how the text should be written. Consultations typically cover the following aspects:

• The cultural context in which the works and performances in question arose.
• The history of the composition, performance and reception of the repertoire
  in question.

Depending on their purpose, length and destination, the texts may also include:

• An up-to-date annotated discography
• Composers’ and/or performers’ CVs in a variety of formats
• Additional texts:
     - Musical forms
     - Glossary of musical terms
     - Description of instruments
     - Interesting facts and information
     - Extracts from historical texts (letters, fragments taken from primary sources)

In the case of concert programme notes, particularly when the event takes place in the context of an ongoing association, the texts may be complemented with other sections on the history of the concert venue or the organizing institution, the biography of an artist, the evolution of a musical genre or the content of some relevant document or book (which, if considered appropriate, may be the subject of a later publication).


See examples: