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Line 3: Line 3: {{Title Infobox}}{{Title Infobox}}{{Lyric Infobox}}{{Lyric Infobox}}+ + Put your title in spotlighted positions: In chorus opening lines, closing lines, or both. in AABA form, at the end of each verse (modern) or at the beginning.+ + Titles should...+ + * Distill and express the central idea of the song.+ * Be the target area that everything else in the song aims at.+ * Be able to be developed as the song progresses, so that it gains more impact as we gain more information.+ * Be engaging and interesting, either in themselves or in the ideas they are able to provoke.+ * Specific rather than general+ + ===Kinds of Titles===+ + ====DNA Titles====+ + Contain meaning. "Black Velvet," "The Great Pretender," "The Tracks of My Tears," or "Cleaning Out My Closet."+ + ====Parasitic Titles====+ + Need the context of the lyric for full effect. "And They Do," or "All I See is You?"+ + ===Finding Titles===+ + * Transformed clichés+ * Suggest or contain metaphor or simile.+ * A clever turn on words, like "Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?"+ * Sonic bonding, either with vowels (assonance) or consonants (alliteration), or both.+ * Opposites (wrong, right; sun, moon; dark, light; in, out; up, down, etc.)+ * Repetition+ * Repetition with Variation+ * Double meanings+ * Billboard signs+ * Product slogans+ * Book and movie titles+ * Interesting things people say+ * Songs, especially lines you misunderstand+ * Thesaurus+ * Dictionaries of phrases+ * Rhyming dictionary+ * Dictionary of alliteration+ + + [[category:Music]][[category:Music]][[category:Songwriting]][[category:Songwriting]][[category:Lyrics]][[category:Lyrics]]Revision as of 05:15, 10 January 2012
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Title
Songwriting Infobox 
Song ModelSongwriting Lyrics - Melody - Harmony - Rhythm - Form Song Form Title - Chorus - Verse - Prechorus - Bridge Title Infobox Title Lyrics - Melody - Harmony - Rhythm - Form Lyric Infobox Lyrics: Top Level Title - Song Plots - Rhyme - Rhyme Scheme - Lyric Triad Patterns - Lyric Writing Checklist - Scratch - RhymeZone - Titles - Category:Lyrics - Template:Rhyme - Template:Lyric Lyric Lyric - Melody - Harmony - Rhythm - Form Put your title in spotlighted positions: In chorus opening lines, closing lines, or both. in AABA form, at the end of each verse (modern) or at the beginning.
Titles should...
- Distill and express the central idea of the song.
- Be the target area that everything else in the song aims at.
- Be able to be developed as the song progresses, so that it gains more impact as we gain more information.
- Be engaging and interesting, either in themselves or in the ideas they are able to provoke.
- Specific rather than general
Kinds of Titles
DNA Titles
Contain meaning. "Black Velvet," "The Great Pretender," "The Tracks of My Tears," or "Cleaning Out My Closet."
Parasitic Titles
Need the context of the lyric for full effect. "And They Do," or "All I See is You?"
Finding Titles
- Transformed clichés
- Suggest or contain metaphor or simile.
- A clever turn on words, like "Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue?"
- Sonic bonding, either with vowels (assonance) or consonants (alliteration), or both.
- Opposites (wrong, right; sun, moon; dark, light; in, out; up, down, etc.)
- Repetition
- Repetition with Variation
- Double meanings
- Billboard signs
- Product slogans
- Book and movie titles
- Interesting things people say
- Songs, especially lines you misunderstand
- Thesaurus
- Dictionaries of phrases
- Rhyming dictionary
- Dictionary of alliteration
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