What I Did

• For my Reading and Writing Electronic Text Final I explored building a songwriting helper in a Jupyter notebook building off of techniques described in a songwriting book and using tools and techniques from throughout the semester.
• Below are slides describing my process, the jupyter notebook with code and more explanations, the songs I enjoyed the most and more information about the process.
• Presentation Slides
• Jupyter notebook

The Songs

Defenseless robin's egg blue 
by The Then Said

Key: A minor

Genre: Country

Verse 1:
Heaven has seen fit to last 
neither on my native soil, 
and the omens conveyed him this 
as we were to stand once came 
trooping down of Troy and 
well spoken reasonable arrangement

Verse:
Go, then?

Chorus:
defenseless robin's egg blue

Bridge:
far stranger
just land

Chorus:
defenseless robin's egg blue

Bitter outer space 
by The By Said

Key: Bb minor

Genre: R&b

Verse 1:
Did you die?

Chorus:
bitter outer space

Verse:
I hope you will succeed; 
it is the market place of Patroclus
who had been told him with 
his ruing bitterly.

Chorus:
bitter outer space

Bridge:
so cleaning
very protection

Chorus:
bitter outer space

Ecstatic red orange 
by The Yet Sink

Key: Gb major

Genre: Country

Verse 1:
Then she had sacked the shore of 
the son of Agamemnon was 
against the ship and he alone swamp

Chorus:
ecstatic red orange

Verse:
When there, fighting hard words, 
wherein a golden goblet for me, 
whereon he floated about my son; 
is he not clever.

Chorus:
ecstatic red orange

Bridge:
twice word
again farm

Chorus:
ecstatic red orange

Indignant Dandelion 
by The First Drawn

Key: Db minor

Genre: Pop

Verse 1:
Heaven has seen fit to last 
neither on my native soil, 
and the omens conveyed him this 
as we were to stand once came 
trooping down of Troy and 
well spoken reasonable arrangement

Chorus:
Indignant Dandelion

Verse:
Go, then?

Chorus:
Indignant Dandelion

Bridge:
wildly life
unwillingly ship

Chorus:
Indignant Dandelion

Inspiration

• My main inspiration was How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy which I used as a basis to build the tracery grammar with different text. I explored this first in a previous assignment in which I actually enjoyed the songs a bit more.

How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy

• I also had explored creating disco inspired lyrics and would like to explore more genre structures in the future (beyond choosing the genre name as I did in this first notebook).
• Disco Lyrical Genre Study

Goals

1. Write one song!