8/21/12
Welcome to Advanced Songwriting!
In Class:
As a class, we reviewed the syllabus and expectations of this particular course. We discussed our backgrounds and experiences with songwriting, as well as our hopes and goals for the coming block. Pocket notebooks were distributed to each student.
Additionally, we introduced the fundamental dimensions we will use to analyze songwriting (lyrical, musical, and affective) and their integrated relationships.
Finally, we engaged in two basic free-writing activities.
As a class, we reviewed the syllabus and expectations of this particular course. We discussed our backgrounds and experiences with songwriting, as well as our hopes and goals for the coming block. Pocket notebooks were distributed to each student.
Additionally, we introduced the fundamental dimensions we will use to analyze songwriting (lyrical, musical, and affective) and their integrated relationships.
Finally, we engaged in two basic free-writing activities.
Homework:
- Complete the Terminology and Vocabulary Review in order to establish our common language for discussing songwriting.
- Identify a song that you consider "well-written." Find it on YouTube; bring the link to class, along with a printed copy of any lyrics that accompany it. [Note: alternatively, you may post the link on this blog, but please bring the printed lyrics to class anyway.]
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