Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students

by Michael Zager multi award-winning composer, arranger, and producer, Florida Atlantic Univ

Overview

In an age when the recording industry is undergoing its most radical change in over half a century, the guidance of a skilled music producer is quickly becoming indispensable for producing a great recording.

Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Third Edition serves as a comprehensive road map for navigating the continuous transformations in the music industry and music production technologies. From dissecting compositions to understanding studio technologies, from coaching vocalists and instrumentalists to arranging and orchestration, from musicianship to marketing, advertising, and promotion, Michael Zager takes us on a tour of the world of music production and the recording industry, helping students and professionals keep pace with this rapidly changing profession.

This third edition features:

• New interviews with eminent industry professionals
• Updated information on current trends in producing popular music and the impacts of the Music Modernization Act
• Additional material on video game music
• End-of-chapter assignments for course usage

An instructor’s manual is available. Please email [e-mail].

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538128510
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	450
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

Table 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

Editorial Reviews

Michael Zager continues to innovate, disrupt, and challenge the music industry to expand its impact. Zager's perspective and wisdom is evident on every page, and his storied career as performer, composer, producer and educator should inspire every reader of this book.

Heather Coltman

Michael Zager is one of those guys who has “seen it all and done it all.” His book uses all of this experience to create the comprehensive guide for music production. Today’s music business requires you to understand both the music and the business.

Ed Seay

A worthy third edition to an already stellar treatise on music production. In-depth interviews with top industry professionals are worth the price of admission alone. Easily, the most comprehensive and complete work on this subject available to date!

Jim Waller

In this book, Zager reflects on his days leading some of New York’s finest session players. The musicians knew there was always an element of excitement about his arranging and producing.

Ray Chew

Michael Zager continues to innovate, disrupt, and challenge the music industry to expand its impact. Zager's perspective and wisdom is evident on every page, and his storied career as performer, composer, producer and educator should inspire every reader of this book.

A worthy third edition to an already stellar treatise on music production. In-depth interviews with top industry professionals are worth the price of admission alone. Easily, the most comprehensive and complete work on this subject available to date!

In this book, Zager reflects on his days leading some of New York's finest session players. The musicians knew there was always an element of excitement about his arranging and producing.

Michael Zager is one of those guys who has "seen it all and done it all." His book uses all of this experience to create the comprehensive guide for music production. Today's music business requires you to understand both the music and the business.

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