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What I’ve Learned from Pop Lyric Settings

by Kile Smith | Oct 20, 2020 | Broad Street Review, Pop Music

[First published in the Broad Street Review 19 Oct 2020 and reprinted here by permission.] Since I set a lot of words to a lot of music, I’m interested in how others do it, others including composers of the past, of the present—and pop songwriters. The music of my...

Paul Simon knows what I’m talking about

by Kile Smith | Sep 12, 2012 | Classical music, Composition, evolution, Pop Music

[This article republished with permission from the Broad Street Review.] And I could say Oo oo oo… Most of my recent case against the evolution of music concerned itself with the mechanics of DarwinTunes, the program touted as making composers unnecessary. (See...

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