Songwriting: A Complete Guide to the Craft (Limelight) - Softcover

Citron, Stephen

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9780879103576: Songwriting: A Complete Guide to the Craft (Limelight)

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ISBN 10: 0879103574 ISBN 13: 9780879103576

Publisher: Limelight, 2008

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“SONGWRITING is a standard data source for professional tunesmiths and their hopeful brethren. It expertly conveys the process from concept to copyright with appropriate references to currently popular songs.”

–Back Stage Magazine

“SONGWRITING is a fine book. If you know all the basics of the craft that Citron presents, you'll be well on your way to penning your first hit.”

–Keyboard Magazine

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Stephen Citron (Los Angeles) is a composer, lyricist, and lecturer. He is also the author of Noel and Cole – The Sophisticate, as well as books on Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Weber, Oscar Hammerstein, and Jerry Herman.

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PublisherLimelight
Publication date2008
ISBN 10 0879103574
ISBN 13 9780879103576
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Stephen Citron

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "Songwriting" is both a comprehensive course for beginning and experienced songwriters and a rich source of new ideas, inspiration, and tricks of the trade for those who have already achieved professional standing. This new edition not only contains all of the original volume's cogent advice on how to write the always-popular genres - the country song, the ballad, and the love song - but it has been revised to include: examples of hard rock, acid, heavy metal, bubblegum, hip-hop, salsa, rap, gangsta, reggae, ska, soul, and many other of today's most recorded styles; finding a song concept, distilling the hook, choosing a form, adding harmony and selecting rhythm; an appendix telling how to copyright, computerize, notate, record, and sell your song; and full glossary of musical and songwriting terms, an explanation of rap-speak with a useful section on rhyme for rap songs, many musical examples of well-known songs, and a complete index.For the novice, Stephen Citron goes step-by-step through the writing of a song presupposing no prior knowledge of notation, harmony, rhythmic values, or rhyme. For the more experienced songwriter, "Songwriting" will serve as a one-stop reference and as an endless source of fresh ideas. A course for beginning and experienced songwriters and a source of fresh ideas, inspiration, and tricks of the trade for those who have already achieved professional standing. It contains advice on how to write the always-popular genres - the country song, the ballad, and the love song - as well as examples of hard rock, heavy metal, and hip-hop. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780879103576

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