Download or read book The Songwriting Labyrinth written by Clive Harrison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little over two years ago, as an adjunct to the tertiary songwriting lectures I deliver, I began writing a weekly blog for my students about my 40 year career as a songwriter/musician. Student response was unexpected, immediate and overwhelming: it was clear that the blogs addressed a type of learning and information not covered in the lectures and other music study undertaken at the college, and the students clamoured for more of this informal, anecdotal context. Looking back on a life as a songwriter, one makes a myriad of choices and decisions during the act of creating songs. My life and career in music is peppered liberally with wonderful, informative experiences, and as a result of past failures, victories, fortune and misfortune, I have compiled the cultural capital, or habitus , necessary to succeed. This book is not a quest for the formula for writing a hit song, for that would be nonsensical. It is an endeavour to observe and codify patterns of professional practice that have been recognised as successful by audiences and experts in the field, and to organise those observations into generalizable theories that may be applied so as to create more successful song outcomes. Once identified, such theories need to be explained in a manner clear enough for a reliable transfer of knowledge to occur, so that the individual songwriter has all the necessary tools to create their own, idiosyncratic expressions in song, not to pretend that some contrived notion of a perfect, repeatable song method exists. In order to answer the question, "How do creative songwriters do what they do when they do it", I have attempted to;o Simplify: Cite, reference and cherry pick what's important for knowledge transfero Synthesise: ideas, approaches, perspectives and teaching approacheso Hypothesise: my own contributions, comments, evaluations and preferenceso Integrate: the theory of Multiple Intelligences described by Gardner, implying multiple ways to learno Provide: notated music examples as references of our (inadequate) Western musical symbol system, as well as tables, diagrams and visual images whenever possible.o Clarify: highlight and explain concisely, translate concepts into plain Englisho Contextualise: include one or more blog, anecdote or both in each small section

Download or read book The Songwriting Labyrinth written by Clive Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little over two years ago, as an adjunct to the tertiary songwriting lectures I deliver, I began writing a weekly blog for my students about my 40 year career as a songwriter/musician. Student response was unexpected, immediate and overwhelming: it was clear that the blogs addressed a type of learning and information not covered in the lectures and other music study undertaken at the college, and the students clamoured for more of this informal, anecdotal context. Looking back on a life as a songwriter, one makes a myriad of choices and decisions during the act of creating songs. My life and career in music is peppered liberally with wonderful, informative experiences, and as a result of past failures, victories, fortune and misfortune, I have compiled the cultural capital, or habitus, necessary to succeed. This book is not a quest for the formula for writing a hit song, for that would be nonsensical. It is an endeavour to observe and codify patterns of professional practice that have been recognised as successful by audiences and experts in the field, and to organise those observations into generalizable theories that may be applied so as to create more successful song outcomes. Once identified, such theories need to be explained in a manner clear enough for a reliable transfer of knowledge to occur, so that the individual songwriter has all the necessary tools to create their own, idiosyncratic expressions in song, not to pretend that some contrived notion of a perfect, repeatable song method exists. In order to answer the question, "How do creative songwriters do what they do when they do it", I have attempted to: Simplify: Cite, reference and cherry pick what's important for knowledge transferSynthesise: ideas, approaches, perspectives and teaching approachesHypothesise: my own contributions, comments, evaluations and preferencesIntegrate: the theory of Multiple Intelligences described by Gardner, implying multiple ways to learnProvide: notated music examples as references of our (inadequate) Western musical symbol system, as well as tables, diagrams and visual images whenever possible.Clarify: highlight and explain concisely, translate concepts into plain English.Contextualise: include one or more blog, anecdote or both in each small section.

Download or read book Paul McCartney and His Creative Practice written by Phillip McIntyre and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides fresh insight into the creative practice developed by Paul McCartney over his extended career as a songwriter, record producer and performing musician. It frames its examination of McCartney’s work through the lens of the systems model of creativity developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and combines this with the research work of Pierre Bourdieu. This systems approach is built around the basic structures of idiosyncratic agents, like McCartney himself, and the choices he has made as a creative individual. It also locates his work within social fields and cultural domains, all crucial aspects of the creative system that McCartney continues to be immersed in. Using this tripartite system, the book includes analysis of McCartney’s creative collaborations with musicians, producers, artists and filmmakers and provides a critical analysis of the Romantic myth which forms a central tenet of popular music. This engaging work will have interdisciplinary appeal to students and scholars of the psychology of creativity, popular music, sociology and cultural studies.

Download or read book The Absolute Essentials of Songwriting Success written by Rand Bishop and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your greatest desire is for your original songs to be recorded, released, and broadcast. But do you have a realistic plan to make this dream your reality? Author and hit tunesmith Rand Bishop draws from 40 years of on-the-job experience while visiting with some of the most-honored song crafters of the last five decades, unveiling a long-term strategy for building a career composing hit songs. The lessons, essays, quotations, and profiles in this book reveal how a Song Dog becomes Top Dog.

Download or read book The Power of Lyrics Exploring Songwriting Craft written by Harry Tekell and published by Richards Education. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Lyrics: Exploring the Art of Songwriting is a comprehensive guide for aspiring songwriters and seasoned musicians alike. This book delves deep into the craft of songwriting, exploring the intricate relationship between words and music. From the foundational elements of creating compelling lyrics to the nuanced techniques of crafting melodies that enhance emotional impact, each chapter provides practical insights and detailed strategies. Readers will learn to develop their unique voice, understand different song structures, and tap into personal experiences to write with authenticity and emotion. The book also covers the collaborative process, the influence of poetry and literature, and the business aspects of songwriting, ensuring a well-rounded understanding of the entire songwriting journey. Whether you're writing for pop, rock, folk, hip-hop, or any other genre, The Power of Lyrics equips you with the tools and knowledge to create songs that resonate and leave a lasting impact.

Download or read book Bob Dylan s Poetics written by Timothy Hampton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan’s songwriting Bob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan, not as a pop hero, but as an artist, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form, his complex manipulation of poetic diction, and his dialogues with other artists, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues, through his mastery of rock and country, up to his densely allusive recent recordings, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism, the book studies the relationship between form, genre, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change.

Download or read book The Labyrinth of Multitude and Other Reality Checks on Being Latino x written by Julio Marzán and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventies “Hispanics,” identifying with Latin American emergence and increasing immigration to the U.S., adopted the epithet 'latino', soon written as Latino. Media fast-tracked, English Latino would eventually tilt presidential elections, advocate national programs, and protest policies, with native and immigrant subgroups presumed homogenous. Enunciated identically as 'latino' and presumed to be 'latino' or its exact translation, “Latino” proved to be a transliteration that since its coining started diverging from 'latino'. Latino became the political mask of unity over discrete subgroups; its primary agenda identity politics as a racialized, brown consciousness divested of its Hispanic cultural history. In contrast, 'latino' retains its Spanish transracial semantics, invoking an 'hispano' cultural history. Nationally Latino represents the entire Hispanic demographic while internecinely not all subgroups identify as Latinos. Latino is defined by immediate sociopolitical issues yet when needed invokes the 'latino' cultural history it presumably disowns. Intellectual inconsistency and semantic amorphousness make Latino a confusing epithet that subverts both speech and scholarship. Collective critical thinking on its semantic dysfunction, deferring to solidarity, is displaced with politically correct but circumventing tweaks, creating Latino/a, Latin@, Latinx. On the other hand, Latino exists because its time had come, expressing an aspiration for a more participatory identity in a multicultural America. Julio Marzán, author of 'The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams', suspends solidarity to articulate the intellectual challenges of his Latino identity. Writing to academic standards in a style accessible to the general reader, Marzán argues that from 'latino' roots Latino evolved into an American identity as a demographic summation implying a culture that actually origin cultures provide, ambiguously an ethnicity and a nostalgic assimilation. “Latino” are American-germane sociopolitical extrapolations of 'latino' experiential details, the often-conflicted distinction illustrated in Marzán’s equally engaging essays that revisit iconic personages and personal events with more nuance than seen as Latino.

Download or read book Songwriting Without Boundaries written by Pat Pattison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infuse your lyrics with sensory detail! Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries will help you commit to routine practice through fun writing exercises. This unique collection of more than150 sense-bound prompts helps you develop the skills you need to: • tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details • effectively use metaphor and comparative language • add rhythm to your writing and manage phrasing Songwriters, as well as writers of other genres, will benefit from this collection of sensory writing challenges. Divided into four sections, Songwriting Without Boundaries features four different fourteen-day challenges with timed writing exercises, along with examples from other songwriters, poets, and prose writers.

Download or read book Performing Popular Music written by David Cashman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fundamentals of popular music performance for students in contemporary music institutions. Drawing on the insights of performance practice research, it discusses the unwritten rules of performances in popular music, what it takes to create a memorable performance, and live popular music as a creative industry. The authors offer a practical overview of topics ranging from rehearsals to stagecraft, and what to do when things go wrong. Chapters on promotion, recordings, and the music industry place performance in the context of building a career. Performing Popular Music introduces aspiring musicians to the elements of crafting compelling performances and succeeding in the world of today’s popular music.

Download or read book Popular Lyric Writing written by Andrea Stolpe and published by Berklee Press Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit-songwriter/educator Andrea Stolpe shares her ten-step songwriting process that will help you craft lyrics that communicate heart to heart with your audience. She advises on how to: streamline and accelerate your writing process; use lyric structures and techniques at the heart of countless hit songs; write even when you're not inspired; and more.

Download or read book Labyrinth written by Tony Christie and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the Labyrinth Sacred Practices for Health, Wisdom, and True Purpose The labyrinth is an enigma, a seemingly ordinary symbol that has the power to open the gateway to profound self-discovery. Within its coils and turns, secret wisdom is revealed that has the potential to help humanity on its journey toward spiritual advancement. In this book, spiritual teacher Tony Christie shares new information and powerful techniques for exploring the labyrinth as a source of wonder, wisdom, healing, and enlightenment. Discover how to work with labyrinths to quiet your mind and gain insights and answers for the questions that matter most to you. Use the labyrinth as a safe container for letting go of your troubles and finding that peaceful place within yourself. Learn about the fascinating connections between the labyrinth and tarot, alchemy, crop circles, and the cosmos. With the right guidance and intention, every step you take in a labyrinth can bring you greater understanding of your life's purpose on your own sacred journey. Praise: "Tony combines a deep wisdom of labyrinths and his personal experience to offer an opportunity to the reader to explore the labyrinth of their own sacred being. I love the mix of practical and theory. A truly enjoyable read."—Abby Wynne, author of How to Be Well and AZ Spiritual Colouring Affirmations "This book is a confident statement of the limitless possibilities of the labyrinth on all levels of existence, material and immaterial."—Robert Ferré, master labyrinth builder and author of The Labyrinth Revival "This book by Tony Christie covers the entire spectrum of time—back to the Big Bang and into the Future. If you are to read only one book on labyrinths, this is the one to read."—Sig Longren, author of Labyrinths: Ancient Myths and Modern Uses "This is an important book for anyone interested in working with labyrinths or who wishes to try to gain some understanding of the immense power of them."—Yvonne Ryves, author of Shaman Pathways—Web of Life, shamanic healer, Reiki master, and past life therapist "Well researched and written with a steady hand and heart, Labyrinth offers Tony Christie's unique understanding of this amazing tool."—Lauren Artress, author of Walking a Sacred Path "Readers interested in esoteric spiritual traditions will find much to enjoy in Christie's tutorial on the spiritual powers of labyrinths."—Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Harmonic Horizons written by Emeson E. Nwolie and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a Melodic Odyssey: The Pathway to Masterful Song Composition At the core of every beat pulsing through the speakers and every tune humming in our heads lies the intricate art of songwriting--a journey where sound meets soul, melodies mingle with emotions, and chords capture stories. Harmonic Horizons is not simply a book; it's a compass pointing towards the untapped musical landscapes within you. Start with the seed of an idea; let it grow and flourish as you delve into the Essence of Songwriting. Understand the delicate balance between the craft and the artistry that forms the blueprint of unforgettable songs. As you turn each page, you are guided to harness your musical imagination, turning whispers of creativity into roars of symphonic triumph. The journey continues with the essential Building Blocks of Melody. Structure the skeleton of your tune into a framework of awe, guiding you to compose melodies that resonate and endure. The exploration pushes further into the enigmatic world of Harmony and Chord Progressions, where the hands of harmony paint the canvas of your listeners' souls. The quest for the perfect tune is rhythm's dance, and Rhythm and Groove are the steps to mastering this dance. Understand the backbone that propels your song into the hearts and onto the feet of your audience. Then, venture into the soul of your song with Lyricism and Storytelling; where each word, each verse, becomes a confidant to the tales you yearn to tell. Delve into the array of Song Structures and Forms, discovering the architecture behind the music. From the bones to the skin, your song will take shape. Yet, instruments and arrangement--the colours of your sonic palette--are all covered within the pages, equipping you to orchestrate a masterpiece. From conception to the final note, Harmonic Horizons is a beacon for navigating the odyssey of song composition. It accompanies you as you overcome common obstacles, fine-tune your workflow, and delve into the sanctum of collaboration and co-writing. Embark on this voyage of discovery; let each chord you strike be an echo of your innermost stories and dreams. Harmonic Horizons awaits to be the mentor for your muse, the guardian of your musical voyage, transforming the echo into a symphony.

Download or read book Accidentally Like a Martyr written by James Campion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Zevon songs are like chapters in a great American novel. Its story lies in the heart of his – and our – psyche. The lines are blurred. We never seem to know if we are looking in a mirror or peering through a window; we only know that when we listen we see something. The music sets the scene – his voice a striking baritone, its narrator our guide through a labyrinth of harrowing narratives. The plot unfolds without subtlety; each musical and lyrical arc awakens imagination. In Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon, music journalist James Campion presents 13 essays on seminal Zevon songs and albums that provide context to the themes, inspirations, and influence of one of America's most literate songwriters. In-depth interviews with Zevon's friends and colleagues provide first-person accounts of how the music was lived, composed, recorded, and performed. Longtime fans of this most uniquely tortured artist, as well as those who want to discover his work for the first time, will get inside the mind, talent, and legacy of the wildly passionate Excitable Boy.

Download or read book The Prom Goer s Interstellar Excursion written by Chris McCoy and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Superbad meets Spaceballs in this hilarious extraterrestrial road trip! Just a few days before prom, Bennett pulls off something he never imagined possible: his dream girl, Sophie, agrees to be his date. Moments afterward, however, he watches Sophie get abducted by aliens in the middle of the New Mexico desert. Faced with a dateless prom (and likely kidnapping charges), Bennett does the only thing he can think of: he catches a ride into outer space with a band of extraterrestrial musicians to bring her back. Can he navigate alien concert venues, an extraterrestrial reality show, and the band’s outlandish egos to rescue his date in time for the big dance? Fans of King Dork and Winger won’t want to miss this!

Download or read book Seven Faces written by Charles A. Perrone and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Study of Brazilian poetry from 1950-90 examines its 'seven faces' (a pun on Drummond's poem of the same name), phases, and trends. Introductory chapter reviews movement's initial phases and sets the stage for what follows: the legacy of the Modernist movement. Chapters 2-6 cover Concrete poetry and other vanguard groups, the lyricism of popular music, and different types of 1970s youth poetry. Also examines social and esthetic tensions in contemporary Brazilian poetry"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Download or read book Texas Music written by Rick Koster and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-05-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the history of Texas music from the 1920s to the present.

Download or read book Beat Instrumental Songwriting Recording written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: