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Music for Visual Media Subject Guide
Film Scoring
- Complete guide to film scoring : the art and business of writing music for movies and TV (2010)
- Hearing the movies : music and sound in film history (2010)
- Film music : a history (2009)
- The reel world : scoring for pictures (2009)
- A history of film music (2008)
- Film music (2007)
- How the West was sung : music in the Westerns of John Ford (2007)
- Reel music : exploring 100 years of film music (2006)
- Ennio Morricone's The good, the bad and the ugly : a film score guide (2004)
- Film music : critical approaches (2001)
Video Game Music
- Game development essentials : game audio development (2009)
- The complete guide to game audio : for composers, musicians, sound designers, and game developers (2009)
- Game sound : an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of video game music and sound design (2008)
- Creating music and sound for games (2007)
- Music for new media : composing for videogames, Web sites, presentations, and other interactive media (2007)
Orchestrating
Music Theory
Music Production
- Modern recording techniques (2010)
- Sound for film and television (2010)
- Hearing and writing music : professional training for today's musician (2009)
- Writing music for television and radio commercials (and more) : a manual for composers and students (2008)
- Music notation : preparing scores and parts (2007)
- Practical art of motion picture sound (2007)
- Designing sound for animation (2005)
Software Manuals
Professional and Business
Other
eBooks
- Going pro with Logic Pro 9 (2011)
- Mixing, recording, and producing techniques of the pros (2011)
- Making music with mobile devices (2010)
- Composition for computer musicians (2009)
- It all begins with the music : developing successful artists and careers for the new music business (2009)
- Pro tools 101 : official courseware version 8.0 (2009)
- Rocking your music business : run your music business at home and on the road (2009)
- The music tech dictionary : a glossary of audio-related terms and technologies (2009)
- Artists on recording techniques (2008)
- From Pac-Man to pop music : interactive audio in games and new media (2008)
- Music theory for computer musicians (2008)
- Recording on the go : the definitive guide to live recording (2008)
- The musician's legal companion (2008)
- Creating music and sound for games (2007)
- Shaping sound in the studio and beyond : audio aesthetics and technology (2007)
- Making music your business [electronic resource] : a practical guide for the working musician (2005)
- Networking strategies for the new music business (2005)
Current Subscriptions
- A Journal (Available online)
- Bomb (Available online)
- Electronic Musician (Available online)
- Mix (Available online)
- Sight and Sound (Available online)
Online Subscriptions
Back Issues Only
- Black light white noise : sound and light in contemporary art (2007)
- Lights, action, music : a documentary (2007)
- Great American music : Broadway musicals (2006)
- How to listen to and understand great music (2006)
- Breakthrough to improv : the secrets of improvisation : 15 steps to musical freedom for all musicians (2001)
- The Hollywood sound (1995)
- Georges Delerue (1994)
- Toru Takemitsu (1994)
- Bernard Herrmann (1992)
Articles and Reference Resources
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- ebrary – Full Text Online Books
- EBSCO Cinema Image Gallery
- IMDbPro (email daponte@academyart.edu for username and password)
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