Writing Better Lyrics

Name: Writing Better Lyrics
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ISBN: 9781582975771

ISBN-10: 1582975779

ISBN-13: 9781582975771

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: Pat Pattison

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With additional song evaluations and exercises to help songwriters hone their lyric-writing skills, this book features new and expanded chapters covering such topics as: when the use of repitition can be an asset; how to successfully manipulate meter; and how to build on ideas and generate effective titles.

Book details

List price: $27.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.35" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Object Writing: The Art of the Diver



Rusty's Collar: A Lesson in Showing and Telling



Making Metaphors



Learning to Say No: Building Worksheets



Clichï¿½s: The Sleeping Puppy (A Case Study)



Productive Repetition



Verse Development and Power Positions



Travelogues: Verse Continuity



Stripping Your Repetition for Repainting



Perspectives



Point of View: Second Person and the Hangman



Point of View: Second Person as Narrative



Dialogue and Point of View



Meter: Something in Common



Spotlighting With Common Meter



Meter: Two by Two



Managing Couplets



Prosody: Structure as Film Score



Understanding Motion



Form Follows Function: Building the Perfect Beast



The Great Balancing Act: Courting Danger on the High Wire



Song Forms: (Im) Potent Packages



Song Forms: (Im) Potent Packages II



Process


Appendix: Co-Writing: The "No"-Free Zone


Permissions


Index