Writing the Popular Song (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

E. M. Wickes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0266593488 ISBN 13: 9780266593485

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Writing the Popular Song

Among well-known song writers there is little that is secret pertaining to the general construction of a song, for approximately all of them apply the same fundamental principles. Occasionally, however, some writer will dis cover a novel device to please or to attract attention, but it will not remain his for long, as his contemporaries will soon learn of it and make it their own, provided his methods appeal to them. Years ago, for instance, Harry Von Tilzer saw the value of substituting an irregular meter in the old coon songs and introduced it in his I Ain't Going to Weep no More. Before a month had passed a score of songs appeared, each having an irregular meter. Thus rag time was popularized.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0266593488
• ISBN 13: 9780266593485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 243