Music Composition DUMmIES

Far from being simply a musician and bandleader, however, Scott was also heavily involved in music technology. As far back as th ...

and Dimitri Mitropoulos, virtually reinventing the role of the serious American composer, freely moving between Broadway and the ...

Steve Reich, 1936–present .......................................................................... Steve Reich could easily be ...

from many of the most important poets of the past century, such as Octavio Paz, e. e. cummings, Edmund Waller, and Emily Dickins ...

Chapter 21 Nine Career Opportunities for Composers In This Chapter
Checking out bands and choirs
Looking at TV and musical the ...

Oklahoma! or Grease. Sometimes, though, the school in question wants to use completely original music, preferably written by a l ...

For major network shows, you’re going to need a good, persistent agent and a whole lot of experience behind you to get your musi ...

Broken down very simply, there are three basic types of show tunes used in musicals: “I Am” songs “I Want” songs “New” songs ...

If you’re not comfortable performing in front of people, but you have lots of music that is performance-ready, you can get that ...

Industrial Music and Advertising ............................................................... Industrial music— not the dance ...

Film Scoring .................................................................................................. One of the most ...

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Chapter 22 Ten Recommended Books for Composers In This Chapter
Looking into Songwriter’s Marketand other contact guides
Checki ...

to be paid for projects from each record label and music publisher mentioned. There’s also lots of information on composing and ...

The best way to use these books is to own or check out a recording of the score being studied so that you can follow along with ...

devised by Schenker. The analysis reveals the inner musical workings of the music, dividing it into what is called the foregroun ...

composers or recordings. Each composer’s entry is divided into the types of music the composer delved into, where his or her inf ...

listening records, Eartha Kitt talks about her own records and the scandal caused by her performance at President Johnson’s Whit ...

Chapter 23 Ten Periods of Music History to Explore In This Chapter
Exploring the variety of classical music
Getting hip to jaz ...

1,500 years’ worth of music into one neat little category. A purist, however, would say that true classical music has to be musi ...