Music Production

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A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students

By Michael Zager

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Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers, and Students, Third Edition by Michael Zager is an essential guide through the rapidly evolving landscape of the recording industry. This comprehensive manual covers everything from composition analysis and studio technology to coaching performers, arranging, orchestration, and crucial aspects of marketing and promotion. The third edition is updated with new interviews from industry experts, insights into modern trends including video game music, and reflections on the Music Modernization Act, making it an invaluable resource for both students and professionals.
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This manual is well suited for music producers, composers, arrangers, students, and industry professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of music production techniques and industry dynamics in an ever-changing environment.

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 a...

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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 textbooks@rowman.com.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Michael Zager, with a wealth of experience as a performer, composer, producer, and educator, offers a deep and insightful perspective that shines throughout this edition. Reviewers praise the book as the most comprehensive and complete work in music production, highlighting the invaluable interviews with top industry professionals and Zager's personal reflections on the excitement of arranging and producing. This edition is seen as a worthy continuation and an essential resource for understanding both the artistic and business sides of today's music industry.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538128503

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 August 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: 45 b/w illustrations;129 textboxes

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 179.0mm

Height: 255.0mm

Weight: 921g

Pages: 450

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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.