New Philosophy of Songwriting - Cakes, Constellations, and Other Obtuse Metaphors to Help Your

This book makes the case for a new theorisation of Song as a multimodal storytelling sonic act, one that has implications for songwriters, scholars, and the way in which we think about music and song.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Let Us Tell You a Story
2. Songs, Stories, and How They Come Together
3. Tension and Release: Music and Stories
4. Listening as Multimodal Act: The Cake Metaphor
5. Multimodal Narrative Songwriting: A Model for Praxis (Cakes and Constellations)
6. Is That Egg on Our Faces? It's Probably from all the Cake Making.
Bibliography
About the Authors

About the author

Briony Luttrell is lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Andy Ward is a songwriter, producer, recording artist, researcher and teacher.

Product details

• Authors: Briony Luttrell, Andrew Ward, Andy Ward, Andy Luttrell Ward, Ward Andy
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781666931679
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-167-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Printed Music / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Composition, Theory of music & musicology, Music: styles and genres, Music: styles & genres, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials, Musical scores, lyrics & libretti, Theory of music and musicology, Musical scores, lyrics and libretti, Music composition