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Music Library, The

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Library music--also known as source music and, occasionally, mood music--was first made for people who needed cheap, somewhat generic music as backgrounds for animations, low-budget advertisements, and television programs. Unavailable commercially to the public, this music was pressed from the 1950s onwards in limited quantities, and then sent directly to production houses...more
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Tuck
explains what library music, or source music, or mood music, and who made it and who used it. made mostly by session musicians, but there are also some real gems in there like eno or whoever, pharaoh umm.. sanders?, well i canna remember them now. the vast majority of the book is album covers and very short citation of where when/made and who performed it and who used it (mainly radio stations and some tv used this "incidental music").
besides the most wonderful art work , and t...more
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Recommends it for: Collectors of Cool and Strange Music
Freakin' Awesome!!!! The only and definative book on the ephemeral and unusual world of Library Music.
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