The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow - Hardcover

Davis, Sheila

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9780898795196: The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0898795192 ISBN 13: 9780898795196
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books / F & W Publications, 1992

Synopsis

In her first two books, Sheila Davis classified the major song forms and enduring principles that have been honored for decades by America'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'll break new ground in your own songwriting by learning about the inherent relationship between language style, personality type and the brain.

  • You'll go, step by step, through the creative process as you activate, incubate, separate and discriminate.
  • You'll learn to use the whole-brain techniques of imaging, brainstorming and clustering.
  • You'll expand your skilled use of figurative language with paragrams, metonyms, synecdoche and antonomasia.
  • You'll be challenged to design metaphors, form symbols, make puns and coin words.
  • And, you'll learn how to prevent writer'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.

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Review

"[Sheila Davis'] guidelines contain wonderful nuts and bolts information designed to give the reader clear and concise ways to create commercial lyrics. Anyone who has ever sat blankly staring at an empty sheet of paper awaiting divine intervention will appreciate this resourceful volume." -- Songwriter's Musepaper

I highly recommend this book...to anyone who is serious about bettering their craft. -- Songwriter's Monthly

THE SONGWRITERS IDEA BOOK is an inspiration for all songwriters who want to hone their craft. -- Michael A. Kerker, ASCAP Director of Musical Theatre

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Publisher
Writer's Digest Books / F & W Publications
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0898795192
ISBN 13 
9780898795196
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240
Rating
  • 3.78 out of 5 stars
    77 ratings by Goodreads