Week 9 -Blog

Date 20^th May

In our lesson, we focused on imagery in lyric writing this included; imagery, metaphors, Similes, and symbolism. I learned that a metaphor is saying one thing is another an example of this “their kiss is a mystery”1. For similes, it uses “like” or “as” an example is “As light as a feather” 2.

Our discussion topic for this week was find songs with the following subdivisions/grooves> this was

• Straight Eighths
• Swung Eighths(swing feel)
• Shuffle
• Triplet feel (eg. 12/8,6/8)
• Semiquaver feel
• Swung semiquaver feel
• Odd time signature

References

1 Robyn Habel, “Lyric (Imagery and Metaphor)” (lecture presented at the course Song Writing and Performance 1A, Elder Conservatorium, University of Adelaide, May 20, 2019).

2 Your Dictionary , 2019. Examples of Similes. [Online]
Available at: https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-similes.html
[Accessed 20 May 2019].