
Songwriting
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-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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- Intro
- Part I
- 1 Construction And Form
- How And Why We Label Form
- How And Why We Label Rhymes
- Verses And Choruses
- Folk Songs
- Spirituals
- Blues, Classic And Pop
- Operettas
- 1900-1920
- 1920s
- 1930s And 1940s
- Musical Theater Since World War II
- Rock
- Country
- Your Style
- 2 Types Of Songs
- Starting With Parodies
- Writing Lyrics To Songs In The Public Domain
- Writing A Lyric To Already Existing Music
- Translations
- Story Songs
- Descriptive Songs
- Situation Songs
- List Songs
- Social Message Songs
- Birthday Songs
- Foreign Or Pseudo-Foreign Songs
- Patriotic Songs
- Holiday Songs
- Gimmick Songs
- Nonsense Songs
- Punch-Line Songs
- Inspirational Songs
- Gospel Songs
- Love Songs
- Unsuitable Concepts
- 3 Rhyme
- What Makes Rhyme?
- Paper Rhymes
- Identical Rhymes
- Regional Rhymes
- Imperfect And False Rhymes
- One-, Two-, And Three-Rhymes
- Inner Rhymes
- Non-Rhymed Lyrics
- Rhyme Schemes
- Original Rhyme Schemes
- Words That Will Not Rhyme
- 4 Word Usage
- Simile And Metaphor
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Words That Do Not Sing
- Connecting The Words
- Inverted Language
- Filling Out Or Telescoping A Lyric
- Matching Accents And Meaning
- Inappropriate Speech
- Poets' Handbooks And Rhyming Dictionaries
- Part II
- 5 Melody
- The Basics Of Notating A Melody
- Transposition
- Key Signature
- In Which Key Shall I Write My Song?
- Accidentals
- Intervals
- Motives
- Expanding The Motive Into A Phrase
- Expanding The Phrase Into A Period
- Range
- Melisma
- Sequence
- Some Rules For Melody Writing
- What Your Song Should Include
- 6 Chords
- Triads
- The Numerical Relationship
- Seventh Chords
- Altering Scale-Tone Chords
- Inversions
- Added Sixth Chords
- Ninth Chords
- Eleventh And Thirteenth Chords
- 7 Scales
- Major Scale
- Relative Minor And Parallel Minor Scales
- Harmonic Minor Scale And Melodic Minor Scale
- Scale-Tone Triads In Minor And Scale-Tone Sevenths In Minor
- Other Scales
- 8 Harmony
- Two-Chord Harmony
- Two-Chord Harmony In Minor
- Three-Chord Harmony
- Three-Chord Harmony In Minor
- Changing Harmony For Intensification
- Imperfect Cadence
- II V I
- I VI II V
- Commercial Bridge
- Bridges In The Minor
- Bridges That Modulate To Foreign Keys
- The Circle Of Chords
- Diminished Cliché
- Old-Fashioned Ending
- Bass Lines
- Chord Substitution
- Turnarounds
- Evasion
- Blues Melody And Harmony
- 9 Rhythm
- Beat
- Tempo
- Meter
- Rhythm
- How Rhythm Fills The Music
- Syncopation
- Rhythms Of Popular Music
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