Music Production

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.

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.

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