The Songwriter's Idea Book
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In her first two books, Sheila Davis classified the major song forms and enduring principles that have been honored for decades by America&apos;s foremost songwriters. Those books have become required reading in music courses from NYU to UCLA. In The Songwriters Idea Book , Davis goes one step further, giving you 40 strategies for designing distinctive songs. You&apos;ll break new ground in your own songwriting by learning about the inherent relationship between language style, personality type and the brain. • You&apos;ll go, step by step, through the creative process as you activate, incubate, separate and discriminate. • You&apos;ll learn to use the whole-brain techniques of imaging, brainstorming and clustering. • You&apos;ll expand your skilled use of figurative language with paragrams, metonyms, synecdoche and antonomasia. • You&apos;ll be challenged to design metaphors, form symbols, make puns and coin words. • And, you&apos;ll learn how to prevent writer&apos;s block, increase your productivity and maintain your creative flow. Over 100 successful student lyrics from pop, country, cabaret, and theater serve as role-models to illustrate the "whole-brain" songwriting process.


Publisher: Writer's Digest Books; 1st edition (October 15, 1992)
Publication date: October 15, 1992
Language: English
File size: 2325 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 258 pages
Page numbers source ISBN: 0898795192