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Michael Zager provides students with a comprehensive overview of music production, touching on topics such as studio technologies, compositions, coaching, arranging, and marketing and advertising. This third edition features new interviews with eminent industry professionals and updated information on current trends, including video game music.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Music Production
1. An Overview of Record Production
2. The Creative Concepts of Production
3. The Artist
4. Songwriting
5. Arranging and Orchestration &Approaching an Arrangement and Orchestration
6. Coaching Singers and Musicians
7. The Production Process
Part II: PRODUCING MUSIC FOR DIFFERENT VENUES
8. Music Videos, Video Games, and Film and Television Trailers
9. Producing Music for Film and Classical Recordings
10. Producing a Band
11. Producing Library Music
12. Producing Advertising Music, Television Music, and Corporate Music
Part III: recording and engineering
13. Mixing and Mastering
14. The Studio
15. Audio Engineering
Part Iv: The Music Business
16. A Combination of Art and Business
17. The Record Business
18. Marketing and Promotions
19. Business Agreements and Creating a Business Plan
20. Album Production Budget
Epilogue
Index
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
Michael Zager is Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in Performing Arts, professor of music, and director of the commercial music program at Florida Atlantic University. His recording awards for producing, composing, and arranging include 15 gold or platinum records. He is the author of Writing Music for Commercials: Television Radio Commercials and New Media, Third Edition.
