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The Cue Room

Notes on production and library music, from the brief to the license

The catalogs

Library labels, volume series, mood and genre shelves, composer rosters, the printed booklets and what a catalog number still tells you.

Every entry in this room

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A broadcast cue sheet on a desk beside a printed track list, a pencil resting on the paper, late afternoon window light raking across the page, close crop on the title and composer columns.

CA-004The catalogs

What ISRC and ISWC Codes Actually Identify

An ISRC identifies one recorded version of a track. An ISWC identifies the composition behind every version of it. What each code tracks, and why a cue sheet needs both.

A wooden parish bookshelf in a church choir room, octavo anthems standing upright in labelled cardboard boxes, a shelf list notebook open on the shelf edge, afternoon light from a side window falling across the spines.

CA-001The catalogs

Reading the Number on a Choir Octavo

A parish music shelf is a real library of scores. What the printed number on a choir octavo encodes, how the shelf is catalogued and lent, and what survives