Music Practice & Theory, found at Music.StackExchange.com, is the all-things-sonic Q&A board by the fabulous folks who manage to get geeks’ every question answered on at Stack Overflow. So if you’re puzzling over pentatonic scales fingering or exploring an eBow, this is the board you want to be on. Like a great bookstore, you can spend […]
A dictionary of foreign musical terms and handbook of orchestral instruments is the full text of Tom Wotten’s 1907 compendium. Not much has changed with regards to the terminology (although there is no digital section). Incredibly thorough reference guide provided by archive.org. Those who prefer a flip edition can find it here.
Founded in 1972, by a small group of television commercial production companies concerned with a single issue, today’s Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has grown to represent exclusively, the interests of companies that specialize in producing commercials on various media – film, video, digital – for advertisers and agencies. AICP members account for 85 […]
“Charlie Chaplin composed his own music for City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936) and Limelight (1952). That was the exception, and few film-makers would imitate him. He wasn’t clear at all whose job was to score the soundtracks…In the 1930s, after a few years of experimentation, scoring film soundtracks became an art in earnest thanks to […]
The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Resource Guide is a handy compendium of research materials.
