Our Services

Third Paw Music provides orchestration, arranging, music preparation, engraving, and score production for composers, artists, orchestras & studios worldwide.

Every project is different

If your production requires a combination of orchestration, arranging, transcription, music preparation, score reconstruction, or project management, we can build a workflow specifically around your needs.

Our team can support a project at a single stage—or manage the musical materials from the first sketch through the final performance.

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Tell us about your project, instrumentation, timeline, and deliverables.

We'll help determine the best workflow and make sure the music is ready when the musicians are.

  • We transform composers' sketches, demos, MIDI sessions, and written materials into complete, idiomatic orchestral scores.

    Our orchestration work is built around preserving the composer's musical voice while making sure every detail translates naturally to live musicians.

    Services include:

    • Full orchestration

    • Additional orchestration

    • Orchestral adaptation and expansion

    • Instrumentation and voicing

    • Score realization from MIDI or sketches

    • Reduction and re-orchestration

    • Large ensemble, big band, and hybrid ensemble writing

    • Session-ready score preparation

    From intimate chamber ensembles to full symphony orchestras, every score is approached with attention to color, balance, playability, and musical intent.

  • Third Paw Music creates custom arrangements for artists, ensembles, orchestras, and live productions.

    We can build an arrangement from the ground up or adapt existing material for a new ensemble, performance, recording, or production.

    Our arranging services include:

    • Orchestral arrangements

    • String and horn arrangements

    • Big band and jazz ensemble arrangements

    • Vocal arrangements

    • Rhythm section writing

    • Pops and crossover arrangements

    • Concert adaptations

    • Reductions and expanded orchestrations

    • Custom instrumentation for unusual ensembles

    Our goal is always to create an arrangement that feels native to both the artist and the ensemble performing it.

  • Great performances depend on great parts.

    We prepare professional conductor scores and individual parts designed to be immediately readable in rehearsals, recording sessions, and performances.

    Our music preparation services include:

    • Score and part preparation

    • Professional music engraving

    • Part extraction

    • Layout and formatting

    • Rehearsal marks and bar numbering

    • Cues and page-turn optimization

    • Bowings, articulations, and performance markings

    • Transposition and instrument changes

    • Proofreading and quality control

    • Printing and digital delivery preparation

    Every project undergoes a detailed review process to minimize questions in the room and keep rehearsals and sessions moving efficiently.

  • We turn manuscripts, sketches, legacy files, and existing notation into polished, publication-quality scores.

    Whether a project is headed to a recording session, concert stage, archive, publisher, or music library, we create materials that are consistent, accurate, and built to professional standards.

    Services include:

    • Full score engraving

    • Part engraving

    • House-style development

    • Template creation

    • Existing score cleanup

    • Reformatting and modernization

    • Archival score reconstruction

    • Publication preparation

    • Digital score delivery

    We work extensively in Sibelius and Dorico and can integrate with established production templates and notation standards.

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