Where on the sheet music can I find composers and arrangers on the sheet music?

Answer 1

There are two traditional places where music publishers print the names of those who created the song: One the cover and above the actual music on its first page. 1) Names are almost always somewhere on the front cover. Typically it states who composed the tune: Music by... or Song by.... Then the person who wrote the words is listed as Words by... or Lyricist.If someone else is responsible for arranging (enhancing) a tune with accompaniment or (for example) adapting the music to a particular style or organizing it to be performed as a choral or orchestral work, publishers list that person as Arranger or Arranged by.... If one talented person wrote the lyrics and composed the music, her attribution usually is Words andMusic by....
2) Typically the other place to find the names is on the first page of the music (above the first stave of lines with notes.) Usually at the top left is the lyricist's name, and at the top right is the music composer's name. Occasionally the names are directly under the song's title. If there is an arranger, that name usually is on the right side, sometimes being identified as Arranger or Arr. or Arranged by.