Publishers

Lost & Found

33 works with no publisher on record

Southern Music Co.

0 catalogued arrangements · 4 held

Founded in 1937 in San Antonio, Texas by Milton Fink as the Southern Music Company. Grew into a leading publisher of school and concert repertoire for band, orchestra, and choral forces. Acquired by Lauren Keiser Music Publishing in 2012 after 75 years in San Antonio.

Theodore Presser Company

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Founded in 1883 in Lynchburg, Virginia by Theodore Presser, originally to publish his music-education magazine The Etude, which drove him into sheet-music publishing to fill its pages. Acquired The John Church Company (Sousa's main publisher) in 1930 and Oliver Ditson Company in 1931. Considered the oldest continuously operating music publisher in the United States.

Tideland Music Publishing Corp.

0 catalogued arrangements · 1 held

Twentieth Century Music Co.

0 catalogued arrangements · 1 held

United Artists Music Co.

0 catalogued arrangements · 2 held

Formed in 1957 alongside United Artists Records. Absorbed the storied Robbins-Feist-Miller "Big Three" catalog from MGM in 1973. Its publishing arm was retained by parent Transamerica when UA Records was sold to EMI in 1979, later passing to MGM/UA (1981) and CBS Records (1983), whose publishing division EMI Music Publishing acquired in 1989.

Warner Bros Publications

0 catalogued arrangements · 11 held

Traces to the Music Publishers Holding Corporation, formed in 1928-29 when Warner Bros. Pictures acquired M. Witmark & Sons, Harms Inc., Jerome H. Remick's catalog, and New World Music to secure film-music copyrights. Over the following decades it grew through further acquisitions -- including Birch Tree Group (1988) and CPP/Belwin, the former Columbia Pictures print-music arm (1994) -- into the world's largest print-music publisher. In 2005, Warner Chappell Music sold this print division to Alfred Music.

West River Music Publishers

0 catalogued arrangements · 1 held

William Allen Music, Inc.

110 catalogued arrangements · 2 held

Founded in the 1970s by Jay Chattaway, Ralph Gingery, and Jeff Taylor, becoming a notable publisher of concert band and jazz ensemble music.

Wingert-Jones Music

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Founded in 1964 in Kansas City by traveling instrument salesmen Merrill Jones and George Wingert, starting with a single piece by composer Claude T. Smith, who remained their flagship composer until his death in 1987. Grew into a nationally known concert-band publisher; sold by J.W. Pepper to Excelcia Music Publishing in 2021.