Question

6a Read the text and number the paragraphs in the correct order.

Changes in the process of producing music

A ____

Because producers were now so important in making music, many artists and singers decided to become producers too. They began to write the music and produce it.

B ____

But with the invention of tape recording this changed. Many small independent record studios started and you paid for these studios by the hour. These studios had excellent equipment and some became very big and famous. Everyone wanted to record in them.

C ____

This happens now with hip hop music. The record producers always write the background music and do the traditional record producer work too. They make the music then give it to artists to add the words.

D ____

The process of producing music has changed a lot in the last hundred years. In the first half of the twentieth century, big record companies produced music and a record producer was the person in charge of the recordings. He/she chose the musicians and the people who worked the recording machines. Sometimes he/she chose the songs for the artist, but songwriters wrote the music. Everyone worked in big record studios.

E ____

The latest computer software has also changed the music business. Producers don’t need studios now. The software is cheap and you can use it on your home computer, so these days people often write, record and produce hit music from their own homes.

F ____

In these independent studios, record producers’ jobs were different. They chose the songs and wrote the background music; they were in charge of the recording sessions; they also helped with the marketing and selling of records. They became very important in the music production process.

6b Choose the correct answer.

1 Record producers in the 1940s wrote / didn’t write the music.

2 The job of recorder producer is/was more important today / in the 1940s.

3 These days people often record music in big studios / at home.

4 Hip hop artists have / don’t have record producers.

Answer 1

1d, 2b, 3f, 4 a, 5c, 6e

 

didn't write the music

is more important today

at home

have