Lines and Lyrics

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An Introduction to Poetry and Song

By Matt BaileyShea

Summary

Lines and Lyrics by Matt BaileyShea offers an inventive introduction to poetry through the lens of song. The book explores the parallels and transformations of poetic elements within various musical genres, spanning from Elizabethan art songs to contemporary rock, rap, and musical theatre. Readers encounter classical composers and poets in dialogue with modern musicians, enabling deep connections across time and style while noting crucial differences. The study moves from fundamentals like diction and rhyme to advanced analysis of form and address, culminating in detailed examinations of complete songs.
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Lines and Lyrics is well suited to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of poetry, music, and cultural studies who seek a comprehensive yet approachable exploration of how poetic techniques intertwine with musical expression across diverse genres.

An introduction to poetry geared toward the study of song

Description

Lines and Lyrics is an introduction to poetry geared toward the study of song. Bruce Springsteen, Benjamin Britten, Kendrick Lamar, Sylvia Plath, Outkast, and Anne Sexton collide in this inventive study of poetry and song. Drawing on literary poetry, rock, rap, musical theatre, and art songs from the Elizabethan period to the present, Matt BaileyShea reveals how every issue in poetry has an important corresponding status in song, but one that is always transformed.

Beginning with a discussion of essential features such as diction, meter, and rhyme, the book progresses into the realms of line, syntax, form, and address, and culminates in an analysis of two complete songs. Throughout, BaileyShea places classical composers and poets in conversations with contemporary songwriters and musicians (T.S. Eliot and Johnny Cash, Aaron Copland and Pink Floyd) so that readers can make close connections across time, genres, and fields, but also recognize inherent differences.

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Winner of the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory, this work has been praised for its rare blend of accessibility and scholarly rigour. Adam Bradley commends it as inviting for non-experts yet rigorous for scholars. Victoria Malawey highlights its engaging approach to lyrical and musical content across genres, while Stephen Rodgers regards it as an unmatched juxtaposition of art song and pop song, essential for those passionate about words and music.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300245677

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 February 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 63 b-w illus.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Matt BaileyShea Non-Fiction

About the Author

Matt BaileyShea is associate professor of music theory at the University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music. He has published research on topics such as gesture, agency, chromatic harmony, and musical form.