Music-Lyrics

Librotango, Vol. 1, kicks off this series of singable translations with "Milonguita," one of the most influential tangos in the genre, whose words and images echo through the songbook. Among many other giant hits, this volume includes "Mano a mano" (Fair and Square), "Madreselva"...

Every December churches find themselves putting on many carol services and concerts both within the church and in the local community. But the provision of words and music for carols can be problematic. Many hymn books and paper carol sheets often have a limited...

Have you always wanted to put your thoughts and feelings into the form of musical lyrics but couldn't quite make the transition? If so, then How to Write Lyrics for Beginners in 24 Hours or Less: A Detailed Guide is the book you have...

A landmark compilation of popular music, this collection contains Paul Simon's lyrics from his first album in 1964 to the present, now with 2011's So Beautiful Or So What?Author: Paul SimonISBN-10: 1451648499ISBN-13: 9781451648492Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2011Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.90h x 8.00w...

Songs move people. They create visuals in our minds and stoke fires in our hearts. They lift us up, take us down, and allow our minds to soar.Chris Greenwood is the man behind Manafest: the globally successful rock and rap musician who's sold millions...

A one-of-a-kind collection of more than 100 songs you love to play and sing, including music and chords for piano and guitar and lyrics for singing right along. The Great Family Songbook lays flat with a convenient spiral binding, so everyone can follow along....

Sandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of american folk music. This anthology contains words and music to 290 songs that people have sung in the making of americanca. New Introduction by Garrison Keillor; Prefatory Notes by the...

Trever Keith began writing songs as a teenager, but it wasn't until the formation of Face to Face that he found an artistic, lyrical voice. Keith wrote lyrics that he wanted to hear, from a fan's perspective. Ultimately, the lyrics in this book were...

Christmas Fun For The Entire Family*** Only lyrics, no sheet music***Gather your friends and family together for Christmas caroling.Excellent as a Christmas gift for any large gathering or party during this holiday season. After a meal, experience the community spirit of singing timeless classics...

Grandmaster Caz is a pioneering legend who can genuinely be credited as one of the inventors of rap. Caz is perhaps best known as the writer of Big Bang Hank's rhyme in Rappers Delight. The lyrics were stolen from him and he has never...

Every great rock masterpiece has a story to tell. Sometimes that story is true, confirmed, provable. Other times we talk about hypotheses, legends, speculation and rumours. Discovering the truth can be interesting, but the whole spectrum of stories surrounding the masterpieces we love includes...

The long-awaited sequel to Songwriters on Songwriting, often called "the songwriter's bible," More Songwriters on Songwriting goes to the heart of the creative process with in-depth interviews with many of the world's greatest songwriters. Covering every genre of popular music from folk, rock 'n'...

Writing lyrics is an unusual craft, especially for a lyricist who is not a musician. Although lyrics can be poetic, just as a poem might be lyrical, the words of some lyricists are designed to survive alone in linear form to a reader. Of...

112 pages with 16 bars to write your dope rhymes and hooks 7 in width x 10 in length Perfect for rhymes, mc's and lyricists This rap book is matte cover finish Author: Sweet 16s MediaISBN-10: 1953987443ISBN-13: 9781953987440Publisher: Sweet 16s Media.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2021Pages: 114Format:...

Time is short. Ridiculously short. As songwriters, there are a million things that try to take us away from our precious time doing what we love doing - the beautiful craft of songwriting. The Organized Songwriter - How to Create Space to Write Your...

Carefully curated by the artist himself, this is the follow-up collection of lyrics from one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of the last century. Readers will find examples of all the features of the world that Van Morrison has created through his...

Everything I've ever doneEverything I ever doEvery place I've ever beenEverywhere I'm going to Over a career that spans four decades and thirteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved himself to be one of the most elegant and stylish...

The first ever selection of lyrics by the iconic Scott Walker, hand picked by the artist. Scott Walker is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant, serious, and intelligent avant-garde artists today. As one of the greatest lyricists of the 20th century and front man...

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: LIKE A KILLER IN THE SUNAuthor: Leonardo ColombatiISBN-10: 1495076415ISBN-13: 9781495076411Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2017Pages: 608Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.80d

Just in time for the Winter Solstice This is an enjoyable, easy-to-sing collection of twenty-nine original, alternative lyrics ... written with Neopagan sensibility ... set to many familiar holiday and folk tunes. Yuletide subjects range from celebrating the return of the sun at Winter...

The only insider's guide to hit songwriting in the Digital Age--from an Emmy-nominated songwriter who has mentored two generations of Grammy Award winners and nominees. "Molly has written an excellent primer on the world of songwriting. It's a great resource for folks trying to...

Lyrics of "Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael" album. Cd1 and cd2Author: Nancy CooganISBN-10: 1542303028ISBN-13: 9781542303026Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2017Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.07d

Bluebird songs is a sampling of lyrics and poems written by Edward Kenny. Although Ed has written many songs with several composers, the lyrics contained in this collection have not yet been set to music. The book categorizes the works into affairs of the...

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. The immediate effect on critics was...

The life and songs of singer-songwriter Momus during his time at Creation records and beyond. Momus - the stage name of musician Nicholas Currie - is one of the most prolific and talented indie songwriters of the last forty years. His work is controversial,...

The second of two volumes, this companion to every song that Bob Dylan ever wrote is the most comprehensive book on the words of America's greatest songwriter. Clinton Heylin is the world's leading Dylan biographer and expert, and he has arranged the songs--including a...

Provocative and prolific, Boots Riley has written lyrics as the frontman of underground favorites The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club, as well as solo artist, for more than two decades. An activist, educator, and emcee, Riley's singular lyrical stylings combine hip-hop poetics, radical...

The Slugcult Bible contains the collected works of Alex Story during his 15 years of writing for the band Cancerslug. A must have for members of the slugcult (cancerslug's rabid fan base)Author: Alex StoryISBN-10: 1500557382ISBN-13: 9781500557386Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2015Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight:...

From the poems of Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, and Emily Dickinson emerges what the author calls FemPoetiks, a discourse of female empowerment. Situating the work of these poets in their historical eras, Linda Nicole Blair considers a sampling of their poems side-by-side with a...

An iconic poetry collection from American luminary Leonard Cohen, containing some of his most significant verseLeonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing--his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy--during his five-year stay at a Zen...

During the pandemic of 2020-2021 an initial list of 20 old timey songs I wanted to sing grew to these 132 traditional and folk songs, spirituals, shanties, gospel, country, bluegrass and work songs from the American, English, Irish, Scottish, Hawaiian and other traditions, all...

Collect 34 classic songs from legendary country music artist Garth Brooks! Best-selling solo artist of the 20th century, American Music Award Artist of the Decade" for the 1990s, and all-around inspiration, this superstar's ultimate songs of all time are now combined into one comprehensive...

Forty years, twenty solo albums, numerous musical collaborations -- this book contains the lyrics and poems to over 350 works by Scottish singer-songwriter Chris Connelly, with a foreword by Shirley Manson.Author: Christopher John ConnellyISBN-10: 0966406575ISBN-13: 9780966406573Publisher: Shipwrecked IndustriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2020Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.21h...

This book is a collection of poems and song lyrics.Author: Brandon DavisISBN-10: 1546233458ISBN-13: 9781546233459Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2018Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d

Learn to write a song under strict time constraintsToday only, get this Amazon bestseller for just $3.99. Regularly priced at $10.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. You're about to discover how to write a song in a short...

Until we have a feature film in which Bill Callahan's words are spoken by the true and deep characters who exist within the songs, the best format will be this lyric book -- wait, no, the best format will always be the albums featuring...

Famous as the libretto for Anton? Dvor疚's opera of the same name, Jaroslav Kvapil's poem Rusalka is an intriguing work of literature on its own. Directly inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's famous "The Little Mermaid," Kvapil's reinterpretation adds an array of nuanced poetic techniques,...

"Both Rings were round and there the resemblance ceases", wrote J.R.R. Tolkien about the rings in his epic The Lord of the Rings and Richard Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung. Or did he? The answer is not as straightforward as many...

"I don't know if I could name all twenty-nine of my records, but I could name some of them. I liked a bunch of albums I did in the eighties. I liked Street Legal a whole lot. I did that in the seventies."That's what...

Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and . . . Dorothy Fields. These are the giants of the golden age of musical theater. Although she may not be as well known as her male counterparts, Dorothy Fields was America's most brilliant and...

The Poetry and Music of Joaqu? Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is a thoroughly researched exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the celebrated Spanish singer-songwriter Joaqu? Sabina. Often called "the Spanish Dylan," Sabina has established his own highly poetic space...

Time is short. Ridiculously short. As songwriters, there are a million things that try to take us away from our precious time doing what we love doing - the beautiful craft of songwriting. The Organized Songwriter - How to Create Space to Write Your...

In Uniting Music and Poetry in Twentieth-Century Spain, Nelson R. Orringer uses both literary and musical analysis to study sung poems in twentieth-century Spain. In nine chapters, each focusing on an individual sung poem, song cycle, or various poems set by the same composer,...

A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' songs, now fully updated and revised by renowned Beatles expert and music journalist Steve Turner--the definitive analysis of the music and influences of the world's most successful and popular...

Jim is a 2017 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Grammy nominated writer, with songs on 15 Gold Records, 10 Platinum Records, and 7 Multi-Platinum Records; with "Chattahoochee" going Gold on its own as a single. Some of the other songs co-written or written...

Dwight Yoakam has long been known to country music fans as a musiciam who is as much artist as he is superstar. Over the course of his fifteen-year career, he has received fourteen Grammy nominations. One reviewer described his work this way: "Yoakam's lyrics--Leonard...

A coffee table book for hip-hop enthusiasts composed of short interpretations and lessons learned from some of hip-hop's best song lyrics.Author: Ayanle Egal, Ernest MooreISBN-10: 1548824178ISBN-13: 9781548824174Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2018Pages: 380Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.94lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.78d

A well written song gives you the power to touch, teach, and reach deep into a person's soul. But when you hit a creative wall, it can feel like the power has gone out.In those moments, who would you turn to to get your...

Poetry. This book, DAY PULLS DOWN THE SKY / A FILAMENT IN GOLD LEAF is comprised of Okwui Okpokwasili's song lyrics and Asiya Wadud's poems written in response to them. These pages contain both a collaboration and two parallel manuscripts, with Wadud's a filament...

What is the true history behind the Broadway musical Hamilton?"Hamilton" is an incredibly popular Broadway show. But is it accurate? This analysis challenges the history portrayed in Lin-Manuel Miranda's show, reviewing the Hamilton lyrics, song by song, for accuracy. If you're a lover of...