THE CONCEPT

THE FOCUS: "What do I want to say?"

Do I Want to
Express or
THE VEHICLE: "How do I want to say it?"
CREATION

Communicate?

THE TARGET: "Whom do I want to say it to?"

CONSISTENCY AND CLARITY

Over-Arching Metaphor = Conceit

Semantic Field (No Mixed Metaphors)

CINEMA LANGUAGE STRUCTURE

WRITING IN THE KEY of "W"
MELODY HARMONY RHYTHM DYNAMICS TIMBRE TONE ASSONANCE FLOW OF DISTINCT
RHYME
Distance - Chord Coloration
WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY HOW BALANCE (Humorous, ALLITERATION LOGIC IDENTITY OF
Between Progression -Duple/Tuple -Loud/Soft Motivations BETWEEN serious, OXYMORON, VERSE,CHORUS
(What Who is What is Time Frame Actions
Successive -- Surprises -Articulation -Accents What is and ABSTRACT AND happy, sad) ETC... AND BRIDGE
Instrument singing to the and
-Syncopation -Crescendo Time Flow the Setting Situations of CONCRETE
Notes or Expected? is playing?) Whom? situation?
CRAFTING

Resolutions
Characters

VERB TONE
POINT
TENSE IRONY M A P S of SONIC ACTIVITY
OF VIEW CONSTANCY
-Past and PHONETIC FOCAL POINTS
I/You -Present
He/She -Future
(verse-to-verse consistency?)

MUSIC L Y R I C S

METRICS
MOOD -MusicAccents
-ARRANGEMENT
FEEL -Rhetorical Accents
-TEMPO
STYLE -Syllable Accents
-KEY
-White Space
PRODUCTION

GENRE

MARRIAGE FORM
FORM
Vocal Performance with Music Support
A-B-A-B-C-B
etc...
OR
Music Performance with Vocal Support
A-B-A-B-C-B
etc... ANATOMY
OF A
BUSINESS

S O N G
SONG
© 2001 Bill Pere
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