by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 28, 2020 | Song of the Day
When does a song stop being a song? And now we are here at the end of the week and the final installment of this series of posts I was asked to write for No Song Is Safe From Us. To paraphrase Frank Loesser, it’s been a long week, but I’ve really enjoyed writing...
by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 27, 2020 | Song of the Day
Song Form Unformed and Reformed I pondered yesterday that the blame for the current use of the word “song” to describe every kind of musical composition, which I think trivializes the art of songwriting, is possibly traceable to some jazz musicians who...
by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 26, 2020 | Song of the Day
Who is the auteur, the composer, the lyricist, the singer, or the arranger? For the first installment of this series, I wrote primarily about songs by all kinds of singer-songwriters who not only created both the words and the music but were also the songs’...
by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 25, 2020 | Song of the Day
Marrying Words to Music I began this series for the No Song is Safe From Us blog with an attempt to define what a song is at a time when the word is widely used in everyday speech to connote all music and also to attempt to try to understand...
by Frank J. Oteri | Aug 24, 2020 | Song of the Day
Can Song Be Explained in a World Where Everything’s a Song? Having become a huge fan of NYFOS only somewhat recently (within the last four seasons), I was thrilled to be asked to contribute a week of posts to No Song is Safe from Us. But I must confess to feeling...
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