Explores the inner workings of music, discussing intervals, tonality, scales and modes, chords and chord voicings, tempo, rhythm, computers and MIDI, improvisation, composition, pitch ranges and transpositions, and symbols and expressions.
Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out who they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out who they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
A great tool for all songwriters looking for creative resources. 1000 Songwriting Ideas is a handy book of creativity exercises that stop writer's block and spark the fire of your imagination. It offers concepts to ponder as starting places for lyric writing, along with some of the most provocative and inspirational examples you may encounter anywhere. Authored by a pro, these proven exercises are for moving the creative lyrical self, the soul, the real tool of songwriting and the real object of a song's intention.
songs from the melting pot : the formative years, 1907-1914
Hamm, Charles
1997
Describes the creative songwriting style of Irving Berlin, the Russian-born American lyricist/composer, and features insights into his work on ballads, Broadway musical theatre, and Vaudeville musicals from the years 1907 to 1914.
