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Royalty free music & production music library, Sound effects, stock footage and stock photos.
C. Stuart Ridgway
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Newly Single But Alone by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275432 
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00:59 $12.95 (A) or $39.95 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Guitars, bass, percussion. Versatile piece for drama or documentary purposes. Brings to mind a person taking a long walk in urban area. It might be crowded, but he has never felt more alone and hop... | ||
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Jimmy's Hot Rod (no melody) by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275431 
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00:41 $12.95 (A) or $39.95 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Guitars and percussion. Energetic and driving, moving theme useful for chasing, racing or other sporting competitions; montage of highlights. Can be book-ended with other themes, showing only a cent... | ||
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Jimmy's Hot Rod by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275430 
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| Electric guitars and keyboards. Driving, intense piece good for sporting events, especially racing or montage of whole game. Also useful in action sequences like a bar brawl or rumble. Mood is aggr... | ||
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It's Always Better (acoustic) by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275429 
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00:54 $12.95 (A) or $39.95 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Acoustic guitar, bass, piano. Highly romantic piece denoting happy endings and acceptance of love at deep levels. Good for end credits or walking into the sunset. Mood is ethereal, beautiful, atmosp... | ||
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It's Always Better by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275428 
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| Electric guitars and bass. Uptempo, easy paced piece denoting satisfaction, simple pleasures and happy endings; end credits for low-key romantic story. For travel can establish feeling of relaxation... | ||
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Hotwire at Dusk by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275427 
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| Keyboards and percussion. Tension and tempo denote movement, excitement, perhaps a chase; intense need to reach a destination or person on time. Mood is challenging, apprehensive, intense, dangerous... | ||
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Hotwire at Dawn by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275426 
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| Piano with background strings. Piece full of wondrous discovery: finding true love, going forward into amazing new world or way of being, suddenly solving an ultimate mystery. The discovery is hard ... | ||
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Grim Acknowledgement (no melody) by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275425 
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01:17 $12.95 (A) or $39.95 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Piano chords with background strings. Useful for suspenseful mystery thriller "reveal" scene where monster's being is explained or first discovered. Mood is climactic, creepy, dangerous, haunting, i... | ||
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Grim Acknowledgement by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275424 
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| Piano with background atmosphere. Evokes thoughts of mid-east mystery. Useful for the revealing of an expensive, sacred and cursed piece of art or possibly Egyptian archeological find. Mood is sedu... | ||
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Graduation Preparations by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275423 
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00:57 $12.95 (A) or $39.95 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Piano, some background strings or synthesizer. Suited to television montage, perhaps a final show of series. People are getting their first understanding that permanent parting is coming up and feel... | ||
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Graduation Goodbyes by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275422 
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00:57 $12.95 (A) or $39.95 (B) Add to Cart | More Options |
| Piano with strings in background. Valedictory parting piece, where goodbyes are final and people once close are going their separate ways; end of an era. Emotions are being kept in check and there a... | ||
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Funky Minneapolis Sunglasses by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275421 
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| Percussion with background keyboards. Versatile piece depicting totally cool movement and expertise. Useful for sports scene where triumph is assured or intro to swinging club. Mood is confident, b... | ||
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Funky Minneapolis Shoes by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275420 
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| Keyboard with percussion. Upbeat, crazy comic feel; can be used as intro music for inept character who thinks they're being cool or a dance involving cartoon-like characters or situation. Mood is fu... | ||
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Empty Crib (alternate version) by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275419 
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| Piano with strings in background. Good for exit music of film with sad ending or devastating aftermath. Lives have been lost, war over at a huge cost, bad guys won, etc. Mood is disenchanted, distur... | ||
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Empty Crib by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275418 
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| Piano with background. Minor key, slow, meandering tempo denotes feelings of deep sadness and depression, mourning a loss of dreams or loved one and seeing no future or bright spots ahead. Good for ... | ||
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Easy Transition (no drums) by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275417 
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| Piano, finger snaps. Dissonant, aggressive chords indicate suspense and doubtful outcome of events. Useful for beginning of story where protagonist realizes something is not right but cannot put the... | ||
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Easy Transition 1 by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275416 
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| Keyboards, percussion. Fast-paced upbeat theme, useful for fight or chase sequence. Indicates movement and intensity, excitement. Mood is aggressive, vibrant, forceful, restless and serious.... | ||
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Boardwalk Cotton Candy by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275415 
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| Keyboard, percussion. Cool and bouncy piece with sixties' feel, useful as theme music for action series and intro to main characters. Mood is fun, cheerful, spirited, cheeky, funky, mischievous, fre... | ||
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Boardwalk Beers by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275414 
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| Percussion, bass, guitar, keyboards. Energetic, way cool theme music can be used as the intro to an action or sports TV series where the cast or regulars are introduced. Mood is aggressive and bold,... | ||
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After Hours Whisky by C. Stuart Ridgway Music ID: 275413 
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| Percussion and bass. Driving, pulsating tension indicating action, movement and suspense; someone performing an undercover task upon which a lot depends. Mood is apprehensive, careful, driving, dram... | ||
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C. Stuart Ridgway
Composer for film and television
Credits include:
Fox - American Idol, MTV - Jersey Shore, MTV - Making The Band, MTV - Real World/Road Rules, The CW - Stylista, NBC - Starting Over, E! - Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Oxygen - Bad Girls Club, The NBA, The US Army, Magnolia Pictures, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, PBS, Bravo, The Smithsonian
I was trapped in suburbia at a young age and forced to listen to AM radio. Had it not been for my college roommate, Dirk, I would have ended up in a wedding band.
He introduced me to David Sylvian, Eddie Palmieri, XTC and Jobim. Year after year these new rhythms, chords and harmonies seeped into my brain and were eventually released through my songwriting.
After college I started Ritmo Junction: a Latin jazz band that combines Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz harmonies, and pop melodies. It's a perfect mixture of complex foundations and accessible tunes.
I then realized that all of those classic songs that I'd been trying to deny had one important thing in common: good songwriting. I've come full circle now that I write scores for film and television. My music may have a cool rhythm, or new combination of instruments, but it will always have the elements of good songwriting: a satisfying combination of the known and the unknown.
PS: I own all of my masters and copyrights.
