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Syllabus:

Creative Music - SongWriting, 30 credits

The course is discontinued from 2025-05-05

Swedish name: Skapande musik - Songwriting
This syllabus is valid: 2013-01-21 valid to 2014-01-19 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Syllabus for courses starting between 2013-01-21 and 2014-01-19
Course code: 1MU007
Credit points: 30
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: No main field: First cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Creative Studies (Teacher Education)

Contents

The course focus on your own singing and songwriting, how music and lyrics are linked together, stageperformance, musicmarketing and studiotechnique. The content of the course is divided into three sections that runs at the same time:
Section 1.Songwriting and Music Marketing 15 ECTS
Section 2.[Performance 7,5 ECTS
Section 3 Documentation 7,5 ECTS

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Literature

Davis Sheila
The craft of lyric writing
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer´s Digest : cop. 1985 : 350 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-89879-149-5
Mandatory
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Ganetz Hillevi
Hennes röster : rocktexter av Turid Lundqvist, Eva Dahlgren och Kajsa Grytt
Eslöv : B. Östlings bokförl. Symposion : 1997 : 342 s. :
ISBN: 91-7139-362-5 ; 280:00
Mandatory
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Jansson Roine
Stora musikguiden :b musikteori för alla
1. uppl., 1. tr. : [Danderyd] : Notfabriken : 2007 : 208 s. :
ISBN: 91-85575-15-1
Mandatory
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Lilliestam Lars
Svensk rock : musik, lyrik, historik
Göteborg : Ejeby : 1998 : 463 s. :
ISBN: 91-88316-20-3 ; 330:00
Mandatory
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Lindberg Ulf
Rockens text : ord, musik och mening
Stockholm : B. Östlings bokförl. Symposion : 1995 : 423 s. :
ISBN: 91-7139-246-7 ; 270:00
Mandatory
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Pattison Pat
Writing better lyrics : the essential guide to powerful songwriting
2nd ed. : Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books : c2009 : vi, 298 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-58297-577-1
Mandatory
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Buskin Richard
Classic tracks : the real stories behind 68 seminal recordings
London : Sample Magic : 2012. : 419 pages :
ISBN: 9780956446022
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Lathund för låtskrivare : [allt en singer-songwriter behöver veta : innehåller tips från Ane Brun, Per
Hillered Eva, Kapadia Seth
Stockholm : Prisma : 2009 : 251 s. :
http://bilder.panorstedt.se/bilder/omslag/224/51851761_O_1.jpg
ISBN: 978-91-518-5176-1 (inb.)
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King Mike
Music Marketing: Press Promotion, Distribution and Retail
Boston: Berkley Press. :

The buisnes of Music marketing and Promotion
Lathrop Ted, Pettygrow Jim
Billboard Books : 2003 :

Warnqvist Stefan
Vägen till sångerna : samtal om kreativitet och låtskrivande
Lund : BTJ förlag : 2010 : 320 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-7018-682-0
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Burke Patrick
Tear down the walls: Jefferson Airplane, race, and revolutionary rethoric in 1960s rock
In: Popular Music 2010 Vol. 29/1 (pp. 61 – 79). : 2010 :
Mandatory

Davis Sheila
The craft of lyric writing
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer´s Digest : cop. 1985 : 350 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-89879-149-5
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Pattison Pat
Writing better lyrics : the essential guide to powerful songwriting
2nd ed. : Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books : c2009 : vi, 298 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-58297-577-1
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Dillon Mark
Fifty sides of the Beach Boys. Their story
Toronto: ECW Press (83–101).* : 2012 :
Mandatory

Ganetz Hillevi
Hennes röster : rocktexter av Turid Lundqvist, Eva Dahlgren och Kajsa Grytt
Eslöv : B. Östlings bokförl. Symposion : 1997 : 342 s. :
ISBN: 91-7139-362-5 ; 280:00
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Jansson Roine
Stora musikguiden :b musikteori för alla
1. uppl., 1. tr. : [Danderyd] : Notfabriken : 2007 : 208 s. :
ISBN: 91-85575-15-1
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Lilliestam Lars
Svensk rock : musik, lyrik, historik
Göteborg : Ejeby : 1998 : 463 s. :
ISBN: 91-88316-20-3 ; 330:00
Mandatory
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Lindberg Ulf
Rockens text : ord, musik och mening
Stockholm : B. Östlings bokförl. Symposion : 1995 : 423 s. :
ISBN: 91-7139-246-7 ; 270:00
Mandatory
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Om upphovsrätt, fördjupad information om upphovsrätt, anmäl din musik
Internet: www.stim.se och www.skap.se :
Mandatory

Livet
Richards Keith, Fox James
[Ny utg.] : Stockholm : Pocketförlaget : [2011] : 887 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-86953-02-7 (inb.)
Mandatory
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Musik som levebröd
Wennman Kent, Boysen Per
4., rev. och uppdaterade uppl. : Stockholm : UR : 2008 : 230 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-25-08003-6
Mandatory
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Lathund för låtskrivare : [allt en singer-songwriter behöver veta : innehåller tips från Ane Brun, Per
Hillered Eva, Kapadia Seth
Stockholm : Prisma : 2009 : 251 s. :
http://bilder.panorstedt.se/bilder/omslag/224/51851761_O_1.jpg
ISBN: 978-91-518-5176-1 (inb.)
Search the University Library catalogue

King Mike
Music Marketing: Press Promotion, Distribution and Retail
Boston: Berkley Press. :

The buisnes of Music marketing and Promotion
Lathrop Ted, Pettygrow Jim
Billboard Books : 2003 :

Warnqvist Stefan
Vägen till sångerna : samtal om kreativitet och låtskrivande
Lund : BTJ förlag : 2010 : 320 s. :
ISBN: 978-91-7018-682-0
Search the University Library catalogue