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IPHIGENIA PUBLISHING
Finally!
Finally there’s a book on songwriting
where you can actually listen to what
the text is about: songs, chords, melodies, loops, scales, riffs and production.
A book that takes advantage of all the
possibilitys of an e-book.
Phew! Here’s a book that’s easy
to understand even as it goes into
depth explaining music and production. There are links to hundreds of
great songs with instructions to which
excerpts of the audio file you should
listen extra carefully to. There are also
plenty of explanatory videos, photographs and illustrations, so reading
never gets boring!
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MUSIC & LYRICS
Each book in this series has about 250 pages packed with
facts and lots of hands-on songwriting tips. In addition,
there are side stories, anecdotes and interesting interviews
with successful songwriters!
Tap a green word and
the glossary opens
Text contains links to streamed music.
Songs that are analysed more thoroughly are embedded in the book. Various
facts are presented in text and imagery. The presentation of changes in
various musical parameters is linked to the listening experiance.
Skilled musicians share their
knowledge in video sequenses
where you also get graphs and
notation simultaneously.
Marit Larsen, Lamont Dozier, Jörgen Elofsson, Maria
Marcus, Lisa Miskovsky, Mikael Wiehe, Ralph Lundsten
and many more established songwriters, artists, people
from the music industry and tutors share their
experiences in interviews
Lamont
Dozier
Yes, the content of this bookseries
levels with higher music education,
but we are committed to presenting
things in a less academic tone than
readers of textbooks are used to.
After all this books are about:
Marit
Larsen
“the good life, full of fun... to be free
and explore the unknown.”
If it sounds good, it is good – Duke Ellington
Nope! this is not music theory
This book will help inspire and improve your songwriting.
You’ll gain knowledge of how music works, and it will open
up new possibilities for your creative power. It will be a great
asset to understand the craftsmanship behind songs that
have inspired you. We’ve purposely omitted musical topics
that are less relevant for the songwriter. We don’t like the
”theory” in ”music theory” – it’s all about doing!
Writing songs is easier if you know how to get creative,
get yourself in a good mood and be inspired. Therefore, we
have devoted several chapters to tactics and practical tips.
Writing lyrics is not just about the art of forging words, how
to rhyme and how to create form and development. It is also
great to know about things like conceptual thinking, the
perspective of the narrative and connotations. Also, music
production is more than just technology; you can give a
chorus more punch by rethinking chords, placing the vocals in
the right register, introducing a key change etcetera.
Authors Jan Sparby and Johan Christoffersson
are songwriters, music producers and educators, both with degrees from the Royal
College of Music in Sweden.