by Frank J. Oteri | Mar 3, 2017 | 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 these...
by Frank J. Oteri | Mar 2, 2017 | 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 call whatever...
by Frank J. Oteri | Mar 1, 2017 | 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’ performers...
by Frank J. Oteri | Feb 28, 2017 | 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 what it is about songs...
by Frank J. Oteri | Feb 27, 2017 | 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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