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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

The craft of lyric writing
Davis Sheila
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer´s Digest : cop. 1985 : 350 s. :
ISBN: 978-0-89879-149-5
Mandatory
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Hennes röster : rocktexter av Turid Lundqvist, Eva Dahlgren och Kajsa Grytt
Ganetz Hillevi
Eslöv : B. Östlings bokförl. Symposion : 1997 : 342 s. :
ISBN: 91-7139-362-5 ; 280:00
Mandatory
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Stora musikguiden :b musikteori för alla
Jansson Roine
1. uppl., 1. tr. : [Danderyd] : Notfabriken : 2007 : 208 s. :
ISBN: 91-85575-15-1
Mandatory
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Svensk rock : musik, lyrik, historik
Lilliestam Lars
Göteborg : Ejeby : 1998 : 463 s. :
ISBN: 91-88316-20-3 ; 330:00
Mandatory
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Rockens text : ord, musik och mening
Lindberg Ulf
Stockholm : B. Östlings bokförl. Symposion : 1995 : 423 s. :
ISBN: 91-7139-246-7 ; 270:00
Mandatory
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Writing better lyrics : the essential guide to powerful songwriting
Pattison Pat
2nd ed. : Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books : c2009 : vi, 298 p. :
ISBN: 978-1-58297-577-1
Mandatory
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Classic tracks : the real stories behind 68 seminal recordings
Buskin Richard
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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Music Marketing: Press Promotion, Distribution and Retail
King Mike
Boston: Berkley Press. :

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Svensk rock : musik, lyrik, historik
Lilliestam Lars
Göteborg : Ejeby : 1998 : 463 s. :
ISBN: 91-88316-20-3 ; 330:00
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Rockens text : ord, musik och mening
Lindberg Ulf
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

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

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

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