Music and Production

Composition

• Music Theory and Composition : a Practical Approach
• Composition and cognition : reflections on contemporary music and the musical mind
• Musical composition : craft and art
• Sibelius 7 music notation essentials
• The basic elements of music : melody, rhythm and harmony

• Chasing Sound : Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP

Song Writing

• Songwriting Without Boundaries
• Songwriting for Dummies
• Great Songwriting Techniques

Digital Techniques

• Music Technology

• An Introduction to Music Technology

Music- Producing

• Producing Music

• The Art of Producing Audio Projects

Music - Business

• Music Business Essentials

• Music Business Careers

Music - Performance

• IPractice

Digital Techniques

• The Producers Manual

• Sound and Recording

• Mastering Audio

History

• The Art of Sound

Useful Websites

• Record Production
• AusStage 
• Harmony 101 - Understanding the fundamentals of music harmony

Professional Organisations

• Arts Law Centre of Australia - Music 

  Includes resources such as sample agreements on deeds and licences, information sheets on agency agreements and performers' rights, case studies on what to do when a band member leaves, and articles on copyright and band names.

• Association of Independent Record Labels (AIR) 

  AIR is the national association of Australian-owned independent record labels formed in 1995 out of a shared commitment to the independent sector.

• Australia Council for the Arts - Music 

  Goal is to reflect and promote the diversity, excellence and energy of contemporary Australian musical culture.

• Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) 

  The ACMA is a 'converged' regulator, created to bring together the threads of the evolving communications universe.

• Australian Guild of Screen Composers 

  Represents composers working in the fields of film, television, advertising, video and more recently, multimedia. The AGSC participates in all administrative and regulatory aspects of the audiovisual industries.

• Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA/AMCOS) 

  We help music creators get paid for their work and give music users easy ways to legally play and copy what they like.

• Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) 

  ARIA is active in the music scene with the ARIA charts and ARIA Music awards.

• Australian Songwriters' Association 

• kexp 

  KEXP is a music-focused nonprofit arts organization serving music lovers, the community, and artists through in-person, broadcast, and online music programming. Android also available.

• Figure - Make Music and Beats 

  Figure makes it easy to create great-sounding music in seconds. iOS only.