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RECOMMENDED READING
FOR ALL SONGWRITERS

LYRICS:
"The Craft of Lyric Writing" - Sheila Davis (Writers Digest Books, 1984)
"Successful Lyric Writing" - Sheila Davis (Beekman Books, 1990)
"Songwriters Idea Book" - Sheila Davis (Writers Digest Books, 1992)
"The Craft and Business of Songwriting" - John Braheny (F&W Publications, 1995)
"Writing Better Lyrics" - Pat Pattison (Writers Digest Books 2001)
"The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure" - Pat Pattison (Berklee Press, 1991)
"The Essential Guide to Rhyming" - Pat Pattison (Berklee Press, 1991)
"Songcrafters' Coloring Book: The Essential Guide to Effective and Successful
Songwriting" - Bill Pere (Connecticut Songwriting Academy Press 2009)   (2nd Edition, 2010)
 
MUSIC and ARRANGING:
"Melody In Songwriting" - Jack Perricone (Berklee Press, 2000)
"Harmony" – Jimmy Kachulis (Berklee Press, 2004)
"The Norton Manual of Music Notation" George Heussenstamm (W.W. Norton, 1987)
"The Technique of Orchestration" – Kent Wheeler Kennan (Prentice-Hall, 1970)
"On the Sensations of Tone" - Hermann Helmholtz (Dover Books, 1954)
"This is Your Brain on Music" - Daniel J. Levitin. (Plume/Penguin, 2007)
"Lessons in Songwriting: Melody, the Core of a Great Song" - Louis Anthony deLise (2014)

SONGCRAFTING:
"Doing Our Own Thing:: The Degradation of Language and Music" by John McWhorter (Gotham Books, 2003)
"Stress and Non-stress Accent" - Mary E. Beckman (Walter de Gruyter 1986)
"Crazy English" – Richard Lederer (Pocket Books, 1989)
"Phonetics" – Bertil Malmberg (Dover Publications 1963)
"Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" – Lynne Truss (Gotham Books 2003)
"Deep Listening" – Robert Haskell (Perseus Publishing, 2001)
"Words that Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear"- Dr. Frank Luntz
(Hyperion, 2007)
"On Writing" – Stephen King (Pocket Books, 2002)
"Get Thee to a Punnery" – Richard Lederer (Wyrick & Co., 1988)
"The Stuff of Thought" – Stephen Pinker (Viking Press, 2007)
"Palindromes and Anagrams" Howard W. Bergerson (Dover Books, 1973)
"Songcrafters' Coloring Book: The Essential Guide to Effective and Successful
Songwriting" - Bill Pere (Connecticut Songwriting Academy Press 2009)

CREATIVITY and INSPIRATION:
"Electrify My Soul: Songwriters and the Spiritual Source" Dan Kimpel,
(Artist Pro, 2007)
The Path of Least Resistance – Robert Fritz (Fawcett Columbine, 1984)


MUSIC BUSINESS:
"Music Law" How to Run Your Band's Business" - Richard Stim (Nolo Press 2006)
"How to Get Somewhere in the Music Business from Nowhere with Nothing"
by Mary Dawson (CQK Books, 2007)
"This Business of Music" - M. William Krasilovsky and Sidney Shemel
(Billboard Books, 1979-2008)
"Masters of Songwriting"  - Dennis R. Sinnott,  (Music TipSheet, 2009)
"Doing Our Own Thing:: The Degradation of Language and Music" by John McWhorter (Gotham Books, 2003)

MARKETING, PROMOTION, and UNDERSTANDING YOUR AUDIENCE:
"Please Understand Me" - David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates (Prometheus Nemesis Books 1984)
"Type Talk" - Otto Krueger and Janet M. Thuesen (Tilden Press 1989)
"Gifts Differing"- Isabel Briggs Myers (Davies-Black Publishing 1980)
"Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning" Benjamin K. Bergen (Basic Books, 2012)
"Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from
Everybody Else " - Geoff Colvin (Portfolio, 2008)
"Outliers: The Story of Success" - Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, & Company, 2008)
"Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" - Malcolm Gladwell
"The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" - Malcolm Gladwell
                                                                                       (Bay Back Books, 2002)
"The Science of Influence: How to Get Anyone to Say Yes in 8 Minutes or Less"" –
Kevin Hogan (John Wiley & Sons, 2005)
"Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions" - Dan Ariely
(Harper Collins, 2008)
"Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior " - Ori Brafman (Bantam Dell 2008)
"Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable" - Seth Godin 
                                                                                     (Portfolio Hardcover 2003)
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" -Thomas Kuhn (Univ. Chicago Press, 1996)
"Microtrends" – Mark J. Penn (Twelve Books, 2007)
"The Wal-Mart Effect" – Charles Fishman (Penguin Books 2006)
 

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