Pattison, Pat
Summary: "Writing great song lyrics requires practice and discipline. Songwriting Without Boundaries makes it fun with more than 150 exercises and prompts designed to inspire and improve your work. For songwriters, poets--even novelists--it's a creative way to: tap into your senses and inject your writing with vivid details; effectively use metaphor and comparative language; [and] add rhythm to your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PATKelly, Casey.
Summary: Songwriting is an art, but fortunately it's an art you can learn. This guide is packed with everything a beginning songwriter needs to know to hit all the right notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 KELDylan, Bob
Summary: "The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 DYLHirschhorn, Joel.
Summary: Covers: new and expanded coverage of popular music styles - pop, rock, country, rap, R&B, and Latin; note-by-note methods for structuring your ideas into lyrics and melodies; insider advice on working with music agents, managers and labels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 HIRGauthier, Mary
Summary: "From the Grammy nominated folk singer and songwriter, an inspiring exploration of creativity and the redemptive power of song Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny's old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did. Songs became lifelines to her, and she longed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Essentials 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAUTHIER, MARY GAUYagoda, Ben
Summary: "Everybody knows and loves the American Songbook. But it's a bit less widely understood that in about 1950, this stream of great songs more or less dried up. All of a sudden, what came over the radio wasn't Gershwin, Porter, and Berlin, but "Come on-a My House" and "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" Elvis and rock and roll arrived a few years later, and at that point the game was truly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 YAGMonaco, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writers Club Press 2003
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Summary: Presents an illustrated tribute to the lives and legacies of the Gershwins that is presented through the stories of twelve of their most enduring songs including "Strike Up the Band" and "Love Is Here to Stay."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 FEITweedy, Jeff
Summary: "Perfect for gifting during the holidays and beyond, a thoughtful, counterintuitive book about creativity from the celebrated songwriter, leader of the band Wilco, and New York Times bestselling author of Let's Go (So We Can Get Back), inspiring others bytaking the reader through the process of writing one song"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Journey Pub. Co. 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 BRAHarbach, Chad (EDT)
Summary: "Chad Harbach and contributors map out the "two cultures" of American fiction: MFA programs and NYC publishing. In a widely read essay titled "MFA vs. NYC," bestselling novelist Chad Harbach (The Art of Fielding) argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. This book brings together established writers, MFA professors...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 MFAPattison, Pat
Summary: "Writing Better Lyrics has been a staple for songwriters for nearly two decades. Now this revised and updated 2nd Edition provides effective tools for everything from generating ideas, to understanding the form and function of a song, to fine-tuning lyrics. Perfect for new and experienced songwriters alike, this time-tested classic covers the basics in addition to more advanced techniques....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PATDiehl, Gregory V.
Summary: Do you have something important to say? Are your knowledge and experience unique, valuable, and in demand? Do you want to write a book that changes the way people think and live? By combining his experience as an educator and entrepreneur, author Gregory V. Diehl teaches passionate thinkers how to turn unique messages into profitable books—without sacrificing royalties or creative control to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia, SC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.5 DIERyan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYAAnderson, Rick
Summary: Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) offers an accessible overview of the current landscape, examining the state of affairs in the worlds of journal and book publishing, copyright law, emerging access models, digital archiving, university presses, metadata, and much more. Anderson discusses many of the problems that arise due to conflicts between the various values and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 ANDSummary: In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf. It offers updated guidelines on electronic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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Woolf, Alex
Summary: Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe the history of books and how important they have been to civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts�, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 002 WOOSummary: "The Girl Group Sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mix of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to number one, Girl Groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 BUTYager, Jan
Summary: "A new world has opened to writers who wish to have their words turned into finished books. With technological advances in typesetting, printing, distribution, and sales, self-publishing has become a reality. But while converting your writing into a commercially available title may sound relatively easy--based upon the claims of some companies that offer this service--there are many important...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square One Publishers 2019
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Contents: Pre-road downs -- Our house -- 49 bye-byes -- Long time gone -- Helplessly hoping -- Wooden ships -- Guinnevere -- Suite: judy blue eyes -- Marrakesh express -- Country girl -- You don't have to cry -- 4 + 20 -- Deja vu -- Cut my hair -- Helpless -- Teach your children -- Carry on -- Everybody i love you -- Lady of the island
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Publications 1970
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Contents: At the zoo -- The Big bright green pleasure machine -- Cloudy -- The 59th Street Bridge song (Feeling' groovy) -- For Emily, whenever I may find her -- A Hazy shade of winter -- I wish you could be here -- Patterns -- A Poem on the underground wall -- Scarborough fair/Canticle -- Someday, one day -- Wednesday morning, 3 a.m. -- You don't know where your interest lies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charing Cross Music 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.8 SIMSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008