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Thread #37291   Message #520868
Posted By: Mr Red
04-Aug-01 - 05:22 AM
Thread Name: systematic tune and song structure?
Subject: RE: systematic tune and song structure?
pavane
nothing is impossible but you have a major task here and what percentage susscess are you aiming for? The degrees of freedom on lyrics alone are stupendous.
Rhyme patterns, enjambed, internal rhyme, eye/near rhymes, assonance may seem inconsequential but they are the verbal punctuation, the place where we stop & think as audience and breath as performers. You got Rhythm. The grammatical punctuation carries much less weight, the tune dominates as punctuatiuon.
Where does the chorus go - is it a chorus or refrain, if it is repeated is it regular? How about choruses that progress, refer back to the verse. AND the famous exceptions. It all adds up to a lot of combinatorial choices (not all of them binary).
As an electronic/programming engineer the sheer freedom to songwriting is its attraction for me.
As GB Shaw said - re creativity - the Golden Rule is that there are no Golden Rules. Songwriters knew that long before he did.
Those who say it can't be done (of anything) are totally correct - within themselves - but I agree this is a mammoth task and destined to be a percentage solution. Good luck