Teacher Edition
The Music Publishing Business Course
Tim Whitsett with Mike Lawson
The complete student text with sixty lesson plans, assignment answers, scoring guidance, classroom adaptations and a final-project rubric. Covers all eighteen units of the Music Publishing Business Course.
18 units · 50 hours of course instruction · PDF and Word editions
Plan the course
The course is planned for sixty 50-minute meetings. Begin with orientation, teach each of the eighteen units over three meetings, and reserve five meetings for the final project, revision and presentations. Each unit includes a worked case, an assignment, expected answers and scoring guidance.
Teachers can use the worksheets, model answers and rubrics to assess a student’s decisions as well as the arithmetic. Support and extension options let the class work on the same publishing problem at different levels of independence.
Inside the course
- The business behind a song
- Building a catalog people can use
- Planning a small publishing business
- Deciding whether a catalog is worth buying
- Copyright and a young songwriter
- Reading a songwriter agreement
- Sharing publishing interests and hiring an administrator
- Mechanical royalties and streaming
- Public performance and collection organizations
- Music for film and video
- Following a song across borders
- Print lyrics and educational materials
- Songs on stage
- Advertising and a writer's choices
- Samples games and responsible AI use
- Developing songs and preparing useful demos
- Presenting a catalog and exploring a career
- Accounting and keeping the work going
Course materials
The Student Edition includes the lessons, case file, fourteen worksheets, review projects, glossary and answers to the understanding checks. The Teacher Edition adds teaching plans, assignment answers and assessment guidance.