The Serious Business Of Music For Games - Blockbuster games can net hundreds of millions, fattening bonus checks for executives, and paying considerable royalties to developers. Typically, the composer does not participate in these windfall profits... and we should.
Songwriters And Song Placement:The Art Of Collaboration, NY-Style
Royalties: Under Threat In The Online World - It is important that all composer and song-writer contracts be reviewed and rethought, as a significant element of anticipated future writer back-end compensation has been removed from the mix.
Capturing The Film Composer - Stunning images of the craft in action, shot by Sally Stevens.
What I Learned On Music Row Today - Sometimes when we are writing out the story line by line to get to the hook, we sometimes miss the opportunity to write each line in a unique way; show how that character gets from one place to another instead of narrating it.
CLIFF MARTINEZ - A Composer On The Fringe. An in depth interview by Lori Barth
Giants Among Us - A tribute to Steve Jobs - Probably the best thing that he created was Apple itself. To bring together all those incredibly smart people under one umbrella was a thing of beauty.
Charles Bernstein's - Musical Shares - "Outside the Box"
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“The Score” is a professional quarterly journal from the Society of Composers & Lyricists. Each issue is filled with the latest information and commentary from the world of scoring for motion pictures. Whether it’s interviews with today’s leading composers such as James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer or John Williams, Performing Rights issues, contracts or the latest in hi-tech gadgets and music software, The Score offers a wealth of information and an inside look at this craft found nowhere else in the Film Music Industry.
The Society of Composers & Lyricists is a guild and disseminates information concerning the creative and business aspects of writing music and lyrics for film, television and games and is committed to advancing the interests of the film music community.
The Serious Business Of Music For Games - Blockbuster games can net hundreds of millions, fattening bonus checks for executives, and paying considerable royalties to developers. Typically, the composer does not participate in these windfall profits... and we should.
Songwriters And Song Placement:The Art Of Collaboration, NY-Style
Royalties: Under Threat In The Online World - It is important that all composer and song-writer contracts be reviewed and rethought, as a significant element of anticipated future writer back-end compensation has been removed from the mix.
Capturing The Film Composer - Stunning images of the craft in action, shot by Sally Stevens.
What I Learned On Music Row Today - Sometimes when we are writing out the story line by line to get to the hook, we sometimes miss the opportunity to write each line in a unique way; show how that character gets from one place to another instead of narrating it.
CLIFF MARTINEZ - A Composer On The Fringe. An in depth interview by Lori Barth
Giants Among Us - A tribute to Steve Jobs - Probably the best thing that he created was Apple itself. To bring together all those incredibly smart people under one umbrella was a thing of beauty.
Charles Bernstein's - Musical Shares - "Outside the Box"
_____________________________________________
“The Score” is a professional quarterly journal from the Society of Composers & Lyricists. Each issue is filled with the latest information and commentary from the world of scoring for motion pictures. Whether it’s interviews with today’s leading composers such as James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer or John Williams, Performing Rights issues, contracts or the latest in hi-tech gadgets and music software, The Score offers a wealth of information and an inside look at this craft found nowhere else in the Film Music Industry.
The Society of Composers & Lyricists is a guild and disseminates information concerning the creative and business aspects of writing music and lyrics for film, television and games and is committed to advancing the interests of the film music community.