Posted by jks on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/INVASION-UFO-music-tp1509677p1509686.html

Christian J wrote (referring to a Library CD:
"I can't find this CD on the Internet..."

Library CDs are not intended for public distribution. They are produced
by Music Library companies who distribute them free to film, TV, radio
etc production companies. They are usually conveniently themed e.g.
"Action", "Romantic", "The Sixties", "Electronic", "Blues", etc, and if
an editor is looking for a snatch of "off the shelf" music they can look
through the appropriate library CDs.
The production company pays a set fee for the amount of music used. The
composer receives a cut from the fee. This tends to be less expensive
than using a piece of music commercially released and very much cheaper
than having music especially composed and recorded. Getting the rights
to use
a commercially released peice of music for a particular project can also
be difficult and sometimes impossible - it is far easier to use library
music.

The music in music libraries is usually either composed especially with
library use in mind (in which case there are often versions of different
lengths of the same piece of music on a given CD, from "stings" of a few
seconds to versions lasting several minutes) or music which was
originally composed and recorded for another TV programme or film.
Usually the latter would be incidental music rather than the main theme
if the theme was well-known. I have seen, for example, incidental music
composed for The Avengers on library CDs.

Although the ITC series had a considerable amount of music specially
composed, they also used a some library music (apart from recycling
music from their other series). On The Prisoner 3 CD set there are quite
a large number of library music tracks (although they tend to be quirky
choices and not of the type normally used in the adventure series.).