Lyrics
A lyric ( and song lyrics ) is the linguistic part of a musical work, which is composed of composition and lyrics.
General
This can be either the copywriting an existing melody as well as the setting of an existing text in a conscious vote situation. Linking a conceptual content with a melody and the phrasing of the text are the result of a creative reconciliation process between songwriter and composer.
The lyrics are mostly kept in a consistent meter and are - if he has good quality - the song its rhythmic structure. Conversely, it is also possible that a composition of the structure gives the text. Lyrics appear in all song forms, for example, folk songs, art songs in way to hip hop. The English name lyrics also points to the common origin of lyrics and poetry.
Songwriters are often different people. Often write and compose members of bands the lyrics themselves to unite copyright the lyrics and the musical composition of several authors, a network connection is in § 9 of the Copyright Act provided that allows a uniform utilization of both copyright.
Content
A lyric contains lines that can rhyme as verses and stanzas and choruses mostly form or reconciliations. Often a poem or quote is used as lyrics. On the other hand, songs by loss of the melody on the poems (for example: . Collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim, Book of Songs by Heinrich Heine )
Old lyrics often lead to conclusions on language change, but also on the social environment to the emergence time. They are based in most cases either
- On human experience (eg, farewell and love songs )
- On the preceding, orally transmitted narratives or
- Serve a social purpose (eg, walking and marching songs, dirges, protest songs, etc.)
Was the text in the sacred chants of the Middle Ages still the main feature of the music, he has resigned after more melody or rhythm in today's development of popular music. The cause of this development is sometimes to find that most of the texts of the pieces are sung out of the mainstream in the English language and are not understood by those who do not have this language sufficiently powerful. But even in the Anglo-American countries of origin are not understood, because they do not make sense or have very cryptic content often song lyrics. Often production techniques are used to make a lyric incomprehensible ( reverb effects on sounding music). A movement arose among the songwriters, the song movement and in the German New Wave. Here the texts played an extremely important role and made with the song again a unit.
Others
Modern song texts whose authors are no dead 70 years, subject to copyright and may only be reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. The same goes for lyrics on the internet. Given a warning wave emerged in the spring of 2005 briefly also an initiative to fight lyrics with the aim to be able to publish on non-commercial sites lyrics.
Especially in the 1970s and 1980s lyric books were popular, such as the top- hit text books from the publisher Hans Sikorski from 1970. Also in the GDR published from 1955 to about 1985 years Schlager- text books. Funk and dance hits was published by Harth Musikverlag Leipzig- Berlin and pop song for you at the time Musikverlag Berlin.
In June 2006, the first German textbook was published on the subject: " Write Lyrics - craft and dramaturgy ."
A related with the song writing is the libretto, which contains the text of an opera, an operetta, a musical or an oratorio.