The Tunesmith And The Lyricist
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The Tunesmith And The Lyricist
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Author : George Harwood Phillips
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-01
The Tunesmith And The Lyricist written by George Harwood Phillips and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with categories.
This book applies the specific to explain the general. It takes one song, written in the mid 1930s, and uses it to address larger issues regarding popular music in the twentieth century. The song- "I Can't Get Started With You"-is discussed in considerable detail, but so is jazz and its connection with the musical theater, the early lives and collaborations of the song's creators, the nature of lyric writing, the structure of the popular song, the legacy of George Gershwin, the musicians who performed and recorded "I Can't Get Started" (its common title), and the later lives, independent musical contributions, and legacies of Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin.
Tunesmith
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Author : Jimmy Webb
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-04-23
Tunesmith written by Jimmy Webb and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Music categories.
Webb brings his insider's knowledge, experience, and star power to the ultimate guide for aspiring songwriters. With a combination of anecdotes, meditation, and advice, he breaks down the creative process from beginning to end--from coping with writer's block, to song construction, chords, and even self-promotion. Webb also gives readers a glimpse into the professional music world.
Summary Of Jimmy Webb S Tunesmith
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-06-30T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Jimmy Webb S Tunesmith written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30T22:59:00Z with Music categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The truth is that most amateur songwriters do not have a chance of being heard by anyone of importance. The primary factor that separates the rejected amateur songwriter from the accepted professional is that most amateurs do not regard the writing of songs as serious hard work. #2 The writer’s ultimate purpose is irrelevant because a good songwriter can do all of these things and even do them all at the same time. The writer should be able to write a song in any genre for any purpose. #3 Songwriting is the process of creating songs, and it is hard to define where idea and title are not virtually synonymous. For example, if you add the following sentence to the above example: I want to write a song about someone who goes through acute mood swings, you have an idea even though the song may not end up being called Problem Child. #4 There is a technique used by all great songwriters, and it is not a very difficult one to learn. It involves free-associating on a legal pad, and then pareting down lists of cross-referenced words or phrases that can be used in lyric lines.
The Tunesmith Hardback
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Author : Gary May
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05-18
The Tunesmith Hardback written by Gary May and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-18 with categories.
Gary May's The Tunesmith brings to vivid life the sights and sounds . . . of M.K. Jerome, whose songs become a sort of time capsule for vital American musical and cultural history, from Tin Pan Alley to early Hollywood to World War II patriotic blockbusters. This is a beautifully researched and rendered story, not only about a moment in American music, but also a cherished relationship between a lifelong tunesmith and his grandson. - Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, State, and author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America As an animation historian, I'm so pleased to have such a wonderful resource to one of Warner Bros. most prolific songwriters, whose work, by extension, appears and is immortalized in so many Warner cartoon shorts. So many Jerome tunes are burned into my brain, and the stories behind them are so wonderfully told. Gary May makes it as easy as "rolling off a log." - Jerry Beck, author of The Warner Brothers Cartoons (with Will Friedwald) and other works on American cartoon history I'm a sucker for stories of old-time show business, and this book has plenty of good ones. If you love Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood's Golden Age, you'll find a lot to enjoy in The Tunesmith. - Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian With its beautiful balance of well-informed historical research and absorbing narrative prose, The Tunesmith both enlightened and informed me. Bravo to May on this achievement. - Katherine Spring, associate professor of English and film studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, and author of Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema This is a story of the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Film, told through the discerning eyes of the grandson of M.K. Jerome, one of the forgotten greats. - Larry Tye, author of Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon Thoroughly exceeded my expectations. . . . It reads like a documentary. It's cinematic. I visualize stills and motion pictures on a screen, with narration. . . . The final chapter of [May's] life with his grandfather is a healthy mix of charming, amusing, and wistful. Loved it. - Alex Hassan, pianist and entertainer
The Tunesmith
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Author : Gary May
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05-18
The Tunesmith written by Gary May and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-18 with categories.
Gary May's The Tunesmith brings to vivid life the sights and sounds . . . of M.K. Jerome, whose songs become a sort of time capsule for vital American musical and cultural history, from Tin Pan Alley to early Hollywood to World War II patriotic blockbusters. This is a beautifully researched and rendered story, not only about a moment in American music, but also a cherished relationship between a lifelong tunesmith and his grandson. - Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, State, and author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America As an animation historian, I'm so pleased to have such a wonderful resource to one of Warner Bros. most prolific songwriters, whose work, by extension, appears and is immortalized in so many Warner cartoon shorts. So many Jerome tunes are burned into my brain, and the stories behind them are so wonderfully told. Gary May makes it as easy as "rolling off a log." - Jerry Beck, author of The Warner Brothers Cartoons (with Will Friedwald) and other works on American cartoon history I'm a sucker for stories of old-time show business, and this book has plenty of good ones. If you love Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood's Golden Age, you'll find a lot to enjoy in The Tunesmith. - Leonard Maltin, film critic and historian With its beautiful balance of well-informed historical research and absorbing narrative prose, The Tunesmith both enlightened and informed me. Bravo to May on this achievement. - Katherine Spring, associate professor of English and film studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, and author of Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema This is a story of the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Film, told through the discerning eyes of the grandson of M.K. Jerome, one of the forgotten greats. - Larry Tye, author of Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon Thoroughly exceeded my expectations. . . . It reads like a documentary. It's cinematic. I visualize stills and motion pictures on a screen, with narration. . . . The final chapter of [May's] life with his grandfather is a healthy mix of charming, amusing, and wistful. Loved it. - Alex Hassan, pianist and entertainer
Songwriting
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Author : Dick Weissman
language : en
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Release Date : 2010
Songwriting written by Dick Weissman and has been published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Music categories.
"--Covers the creative aspects of writing song lyrics and melodies, including the process of collaborating with other writers. Song forms from folk to rock to cabaret and hip-hop are discussed. This revised edition also contains updated material about placing songs in films and on television and provides information about performing rights organizations."-- Back cover.
The Tunesmith Chronicles
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Author : Lem Genovese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-08-12
The Tunesmith Chronicles written by Lem Genovese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-12 with Persian Gulf War, 1991 categories.
The Absolute Essentials Of Songwriting Success
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Author : Rand Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Alfred Music
Release Date : 2010-06-28
The Absolute Essentials Of Songwriting Success written by Rand Bishop and has been published by Alfred Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-28 with Music categories.
Your greatest desire is for your original songs to be recorded, released, and broadcast. But do you have a realistic plan to make this dream your reality? Author and hit tunesmith Rand Bishop draws from 40 years of on-the-job experience while visiting with some of the most-honored song crafters of the last five decades, unveiling a long-term strategy for building a career composing hit songs. The lessons, essays, quotations, and profiles in this book reveal how a Song Dog becomes Top Dog.
Taking A Chance On Love
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Author : George Harwood Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-09-19
Taking A Chance On Love written by George Harwood Phillips and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding interest to New York before his passion for classical music drew him to Paris, where the impresario Serge Diaghilev hired him to compose a ballet for the Ballets Russes. Taking a Chance on Love immerses us in Duke’s dizzying globe-hopping and genre-swapping, as financial concerns and musical passions drive him from composing symphonies to writing songs, from brilliant successes to Broadway flops, and from performing with classical performers to writing books and articles. Throughout, as he crisscrosses the landscape of American music, collaborating with lyricists such as Howard Dietz, Ira Gershwin, and Sammy Cohn, the incomparable Vernon Duke emerges clearly from these pages: sometimes charming, sometimes infuriating, always entertaining. Although Vernon Duke has entered the canon of American standards with such songs as “Taking a Chance on Love,” “I Can’t Get Started,” and “April in Paris,” little is known about the composer with two personas. Taking a Chance on Love brings the intriguing double life of Dukelsky/Duke back into the spotlight, restoring a chapter to the history of the Great American Songbook and to the story of twentieth-century music.
The Cake And The Rain
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Author : Jimmy Webb
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2017-04-18
The Cake And The Rain written by Jimmy Webb and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Novelistic, perfectly plotted and quite possibly the best pop-star autobiography yet written." - The Wall Street Journal Jimmy Webb’s words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He’s the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted fifty years, most recently with a Kanye West rap hit and a new classical nocturne. Now, in his first memoir, Webb delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, from simple and sere Oklahoma to fast and fantastical Los Angeles, from the crucible of his family to the top of his longed-for profession. Webb was a preacher’s son whose father climbed off a tractor to receive his epiphany, and Jimmy, barely out of his teen age years, sank down into the driver’s seat of a Cobra to speed to Las Vegas to meet with Elvis. Classics such as “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Galveston”, “The Worst that Could Happen”, “All I Know”, and “MacArthur Park” were all recorded by some of the most important voices in pop before Webb’s twenty-fifth birthday: he thought it was easy. The sixties were a supernova, and Webb was at their center, whipsawed from the proverbial humble beginnings into a moneyed and manic international world of beautiful women, drugs, cars and planes. That stew almost took him down—but Webb survived, his passion for music and work among his lifelines. The Cake and The Rain is a surprising and unusual book: Webb’s talent as a writer and storyteller is here on every page. His book is rich with a sense of time and place, and with the voices of characters, vanished and living, famous and not, but all intimately involved with him in his youth, when life seemed nothing more than a party and Webb the eternal guest of honor.
