Royalty Free Music...or call for music

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06/29/2008 12:01:46 PM · #1

I took some (ok, a lot) of pictures of a dance recital my son was in. I am putting the shots up for parents to buy (if you want to see them they are at //dance.nrshapiro.com).

But I also put together a slide show, of a reduced number of images to show parents. I have a .mov file of them, and was going to post on YouTube, and give it out free as well to the dance studio and parents, and then I realized I can't do that with commercial music.

So I looked for Royalty Free Music, and found this music, where a sample sounds pretty good: site: //www.pdinfo.com/download/PianoFlute.htm

Before I buy some, I was wondering about other options... any where else? Any musicians on DPC want a credited sound track for some nice music?

The video is about 11 minutes long (hey, it was a four hour recital!). I will have to break it in two though, because YouTube only allows 10 minutes in a video.

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Prism

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06/29/2008 12:21:52 PM · #2

Depending on the length of the loop that you want, there are a few music samples and sound effects available here. PartnersinRhyme

edit: typo!

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GeneralE

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06/29/2008 12:32:09 PM · #3

Originally posted by nshapiro:

Before I buy some, I was wondering about other options... any where else? Any musicians on DPC want a credited sound track for some nice music?

I have an old CD with some classical guitar-type music written and played by my friend Tom which I think you could use in exchange for credit, if it seems suitable for your subject matter. If you're interested, send me an email address and I'll try and track it down and send you MP3 files you can check out.

gloda

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06/29/2008 05:56:50 PM · #4

Check these out:
//www.soundclick.com/
//www.opsound.org/
//www.jamendo.com/en/
//www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
//ghostnotes.blogspot.com/
//www.legalsounds.com/

delta

06/29/2008 06:53:52 PM · #5

I like Freeplay

//freeplaymusic.com/

It allows you to put in parameters and songs come up with respected lengths ect.

NathanWert

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06/29/2008 08:55:27 PM · #6

I don't know about music, but my G_d those photo's are amazing for being taken in a theatre!!!!

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06/30/2008 09:19:09 AM · #7

Thank you all!

I ended up using a song by Paul S. from jamendo.com, which is under CC by-sa. That means my video must be distributed as CC by-sa, but that's fine.

I also found a nice set of royalty-free work here, I wanted to pass the link!

briangold

07/02/2009 07:49:53 AM · #8

check this 2 very good resources for royalty free music too:

Royalty free music
//www.gemafreie-musik-online.de

Gemafreie Musik Online

greets
brian

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muckpond

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07/02/2009 08:29:28 AM · #9

search for music licensed with the "Creative Commons" license. lots of that can be used for non-commercial use like this (just look at the specific license type).

//creativecommons.org/

timfythetoo

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07/02/2009 08:32:36 AM · #10

We have used Stock20 before for our client photo movies.

MattO

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07/02/2009 08:57:43 AM · #11

OK I am going to point out the obvious that no one has yet to see. Dance recital? Your son? Really Neil?

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OK people just relax it really is a joke. Good stuff

Matt

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07/02/2009 10:39:28 AM · #12

Originally posted by MattO:

OK I am going to point out the obvious that no one has yet to see. Dance recital? Your son? Really Neil?

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Matt

Well Matt I know you are just making innuendo and kidding, but how do you think all those Broadway stars are trained? My son is headed that way, but it's going to be a hard road and he'll need a lot of luck.

And since this old post, he has even expanded to Ballet. He now takes Tap, Jazz dance, and Ballet. So there! :-P (;))

And since you brought it up, for what it's worth, this year's recital was a few weeks ago, and the new pictures are posted! His advanced Jazz dance class did a really incredible dance from the "On the Town" musical. Here are a couple direct links with pictures I liked that have him in it:

He's center front in this one:
//www.nrshapiro.com/gallery/8636226_tXEWZ#569855349_RCdbc-XL-LB

And two of my favorites:

//www.nrshapiro.com/gallery/8636226_tXEWZ#569855974_Nm6aN-XL-LB
//www.nrshapiro.com/gallery/8636226_tXEWZ#569853393_56fRu-XL-LB

And why all the dance? With that and the voice lessons, he's already done very well getting parts. I won't go through them all but since it's a photography site, I will post some pics!

Here he has the male lead in a local theatre production of Thoroughly Modern Millie (this past fall):

//www.nrshapiro.com/gallery/6140564_5ae28#386489792_tnKGf-A-LB

(This one isn't good quality because of the lighting, but it's one of my favorites: //www.nrshapiro.com/gallery/6140564_5ae28#386487153_czRNq-A-LB)

And more recently, he was Schroeder in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown at the New York Theatre Institute. //www.nrshapiro.com/gallery/8560729_A6x3R#563841407_2shJa-A-LB and //www.nrshapiro.com/gallery/8589527_G9VDn#567236116_Jt2Xx-A-LB are examples.

He's had many good roles already (he'll be a senior this year), and this summer is his first paid role in the summer Washington Park theatre production of "High School Musical". If you want to hear him sing, here's a clip from this years high school production of "Follies" (the high school productions are the only ones where video is allowed: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_413YrApZU4&feature=channel_page

Anyway, I know you were just kidding, but it did give me a good reason to share those photos (I don't usually post and share his life...)!

As to the music question which this thread is about, I've been using Jamendo mostly for finding music, and it's been great. I did a slideshow for the Millie production using the creative commons music from Jamendo which worked pretty well!

MattO

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07/02/2009 10:57:24 AM · #13

Actually Neil besides a good way to poke a bit of fun, I was bringing the post back to the top so that people could play with the Report post as Spam button. As this thread which is a year old was brought back to life by Briangold who seems to have registered just to post his links.

Matt