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Title: Essential Songwriters Rhyming Dictionary: Most Practical and Easy to Use Reference Now Available by Kevin M. Mitchell ISBN: 0-88284-729-5 Publisher: Alfred Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Handy but lacking
Comment: This is a handy book. It's small and easy to carry around and you can pretty often find what you're looking for in it. It's good if you're browsing for ideas and it has a small section on basic rhyming schemes and useful hints for beginner songwriters.
There are some serious drawbacks though. The obvious one is that it's not very big and doesn't have all that many words. Another is that while it lists words in different tenses, it does for some reason not appear to have any words in plural listed. It has 16 rhymes for the word "star", but "stars" (or any words that rhyme, like cars, bars, etc.) is nowhere to be found.
So while this is a handy book for the beginning lyricist, people who are really serious about songwriting should probably go for something more extensive.
But then again, it's only 6 bucks. And for 6 bucks it's not a bad book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Very little help
Comment: As a songwriter I found this of very little help. There are SOOO many more possibilities for rhyme in contemporary music that this book is really only good if you want to know the perfect rhymes for a word.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great to stimulate ideas as well as rhyme
Comment: Every songwriter who uses rhyme has moments of searching for the right word. This dictionary is perfect: easy to carry, very easy to use, and chock full of good words. I find that looking for the right word can also stimulating song ideas.
I've tried other, more technical books, for poets. But I've found this to be at once sufficient and comprehensive for my songwriting.
You never can tell,
So use it well.
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Title: Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming : A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming and Lyrics by Pat Pattison ISBN: 079351181X Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary by Merriam-Webster ISBN: 087779913X Publisher: Merriam-Webster Mass Market Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: New Rhyming Dictionary and Poets' Handbook: A Stimulating Storehouse of Words and Rhymes for the Writer by Burges Johnson ISBN: 0062720147 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Songwriters Idea Book: 40 Strategies to Excite Your Imagination, Help You Design Distinctive Songs, and Keep Your Creative Flow by Sheila Davis ISBN: 0898795192 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison ISBN: 1582970645 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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