• To offer high quality and finely engraved downloadable editions (in PDF format) of the standard musical classics as well as contemporary, popular, and jazz styles. All downloads are custom formatted and optimized for the two most widely used international paper sizes: letter (8.5" x 11") and A4 (8.3" x 11.7").
• To publish and promote original musical works and arrangements by today's composers and arrangers. Works published by BachScholar will be secured with international copyrights and be registered with ASCAP. Composers and arrangers will receive regular royalties for all copies sold.
• BachScholar's website functions as a forum-like site with articles, advice, and resources for aspiring musicians of all levels.

      ---> Download Free 2-Page Sample! (Bach's "Invention 4")
      ---> Download Free 1-Page Sample! (Mozart's "Sonata, K.545")
      ---> Download Free 1-Page Sample! (Chopin's "Fantaisie-Impromptu")
      ---> Download Free 2-Page Sample! (Joplin's "The Entertainer")

• All editions are custom formatted for letter and A4 paper sizes and are immediately ready to download and print.
• All editions are engraved with laser precision and printed using state-of-the-art laser printing, which results in exceptionally clear and pleasing to read musical scores.
• Paper space is optimized by the use of wider than normal margins and careful selection of the most ideal staff and note sizes.
• BachScholar's normal staff length is nearly a full inch longer than the letter-sized (8.5 x 11) staff default length, as well as a full 1/2 inch longer than the traditional 9 x 12 folio staff length. This accommodates on average up to one more measure per staff without sacrificing legibility and naturally permits the ideal amount of music per page. In other words, a BachScholar page will never be "dumbed down" with too little music or "overly cramped" with too much music.
• All noteheads, beams, stems, barlines, slurs, and ties appear with an attractive slightly darker than normal thickness and laser precision, which results in enhanced clarity and legibility.
• The optimization of thickness of the elements explained above makes it possible to decrease the staff size without sacrificing legibility. That is, BachScholar's optimized settings make its smaller staff sizes more legible than the common, default settings used by most other engravers.
• BachScholar strives to offer a new standard of quality to downloadable music editions, a standard of quality that has unfortunately been deteriorating ever since the proliferation and mass marketing of music print downloads (referred to in the vernacular as "sheet music"). BachScholar's engraving standards for downloads is comparable to the fine, "old-world" engraving standards seen in such 9" x 12" hardcover Urtext editions as Bärenreiter, Henle, or Peters.
• BachScholar promises the finest music print downloads on the internet and backs up this promise with a money-back guarantee. Should you not be satisfied with a BachScholar download, your purchase will happily be refunded upon request.

"Cory Hall played two works of towering artistic content and difficulty with a power and a finish that were startling. Hall was up to it—all over the keyboard, but always conscious of the magic the notes were designed to evoke. It was an impressive performance." (The Sacramento Bee)

Cory Hall (b. 1963) is a classical pianist, composer/arranger, music editor, master music engraver, and independent scholar who operates the popular BachScholar™ YouTube Channel, which currently features nearly 400 performance and tutorial videos that receive over 13,000 daily views worldwide (see link above in the navigation area). Hall is renowned for his pure tone and virtuoso technique, rapid learning abilities, and prodigious memory (with several hundred memorized piano performances) and records on his vintage 1929 Model L Steinway. Hall has many interests and has served many capacities including: concert artist (solo and accompanist), private piano teacher, college professor (humanities and music), church organist, independent scholar. He holds music degrees from California State University, Sacramento (B.M. in piano), The Eastman School of Music (M.M. in piano), and The University of Kansas (M.M. in historical musicology, D.M.A. in piano).

In addition to excelling in the traditional classical piano literature, Hall is regarded by many to be one of the world's foremost interpreters of Scott Joplin and classic ragtime music, ca. 1900-1920, which he often livens up and embellishes with his own unique arrangements. Hall has recorded most of Joplin's works on YouTube. As a composer, Hall often combines intriguing blends of diverse styles such as classical, pop, and new age and at other times uses his own unique romantic virtuoso style to create evocative character works, both sacred and secular. Hall's main research interests include tempo and alphanumeric symbolism in the music of J.S. Bach. Still in progress for twenty years is his book "Discovering Bach's Secret Tempo Code", which introduces a groundbreaking theory that makes it possible to determine the precise tempos (in beats per minute) that Bach intended for all his works.

In 2010 after two years of hard work on the BachScholar™ YouTube Channel, Hall began to have visions of a new and exciting kind of publishing company. This company would truly be one the 21st century that takes full advantage of our current online and global world. Dissatisfied with the poor engraving standards of most downloadable sheet music as well as with the inaccessibility of most music publishers, Hall's imagination eventually began to draft a unique business plan for BachScholar Publishing.