Americana/Alt Country Instrumentals

[wickedsmaht]

Hi all,

new-ish TAXI member, first-time forum poster, looking for some advice on this listing:

AMERICANA/ALT COUNTRY INSTRUMENTALS in the range from Uncle Tupelo to Lucinda Williams to Wilco, etc., are wanted by a West Coast-based Music Library whose clients include Xbox, Microsoft, Visa, Clorox, Instrumental presentation must be top-notch! They offer a standard non-exclusive, 50/50 deal and they don’t acquire your song’s copyright. Songs must be broadcast quality (great sounding home recordings are OK). You must control the publishing and master rights to your songs - no samples that require clearance, please. Please submit one to three instrumentals online or per CD. All submissions will be screened and critiqued by TAXI and must be received no later than Wednesday, January 20, 2010.
TAXI # S100120AM

I'm guessing that this is the same company that posted a similar listing for songs rather than instrumentals (S100106AM, with a few more "a la's"). When writing for this instrumental listing, would you go with a full song form with prechorus, bridge, a strong melody etc... or with a more "library music" ABAB kind of form, and stay away from an attention-grabbing melody?

Thanks in advance, and looking forward to becoming an active member on the forums after a couple of months of lurking and listening!

-Jonathan