Verba volant, scripta manent

Article written for the Composers Society of Singapore and published on its blog on 14-VI-2025. Casteels aims to convince more Singaporean composers to deposit their compositions with Legal Deposit. Casteels asks and answers the following questions: 

- what is Legal Deposit?;

- what is an ISMN?;

- why should I deposit my compositions with Legal Deposit?;

- how do I obtain an ISMN for my composition?;

- the special case of parts/ what about composers’ drafts and archives?