Successful Lyric Writing: A Step-By-Step Course & Workbook

✍ Scribed by Sheila Davis

• Publisher: Writers Digest Books
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Covers structure, viewpoint, voice, rhythm, rhyme, and setting, identifies common song writing problems, and provides writing assignments.

✦ Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
How to Build a Sound Structure......Page 8
The Essential Lyric Framework......Page 9
The Major Song Forms......Page 27
Managing Viewpoint, Voice, Time Frame, and Setting......Page 53
How To Make Your Words Work......Page 78
Applying the Top-Ten Principles to Avoid the Pitfalls......Page 79
Figuring Out Figurative Language......Page 95
You Got Rhythm......Page 110
A Rundown Of Rhyme......Page 120
How To Put ltTogether......Page 129
Writing with the Whole Brain......Page 130
Finding Your Voice......Page 147
The Moral Dimension......Page 156
How To Keep The Ideas Coming......Page 162
Ten Lyric Writing Assignments......Page 163
How To Move Onward And Upward......Page 244
Starting a Songwriting Workshop......Page 245
A Guided Critique Session......Page 253
Joining The Pros......Page 263
APPENDIX......Page 270
SONG STARTERS......Page 271
ANSWERS TO PRACTICE CRITIQUES AND QUIZZES......Page 275
A SONGWRITER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 280
SONGWRITER ORGANIZATIONS......Page 283
SONG TITLE INDEX......Page 292
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 296