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Musical quotation is to be distinguished from variation, where a composer takes a theme (their own or another's) and writes variations on it.In that case, the origin of the theme is usually acknowledged in the title (e.g., Johannes Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn).
He offered a course in literary criticism, and added song lyrics to create the course: Analysis of Song Lyrics. That course aided in the development in Berklee College of Music's songwriting major. Pattison has published in Home and Studio Recording Magazine and written two books, The Essential Guide to Rhyming , now in a revised second edition ...
Jason Blume is an American songwriter, author, and teacher of songwriting. Blume is the author of 6 Steps to Songwriting Success (and the Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition), [1] This Business of Songwriting, [2] and Inside Songwriting, [3] all published by Billboard Books/Penguin/Random House.
Edwin DuBose Heyward (August 31, 1885 – June 16, 1940) [1] [2] was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.
Anna Bartlett Warner (August 31, 1827 – January 22, 1915) was an American writer, the author of several books, and of poems set to music as hymns and religious songs for children. She is best known for writing the hymn " Jesus Loves Me ".
In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs is a collection of essays in which twenty-nine authors and musicians discuss their favorite Beatles songs. The book is edited by Andrew Blauner, and features an introductory note by Paul McCartney .
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In 1993 Eldorado, along with "Hymn" and "Evening Star", was adapted by Jonathan Adams as Three Songs from Edgar Allan Poe for SATB chorus and piano. The better-known composer John Adams also composed an Eldorado symphony. In popular music, the poem was used in 1996 for the lyrics of a Donovan song on his album Sutras.