Musical Theatre Songwriting for the Composer/Lyricist
Taught By Mark Hollmann
SPRING 2021 - SPECIALTY WRITING WORKSHOP
10 WEEK ONLINE COURSE STARTING MARCH 13
SATURDAYS from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
4 CREDITS
$500
Using students' prior work, as well as songwriting assignments during the 10-week course, we will examine:
• The craft of marrying music and lyrics in a musical theatre song
• Musical theatre song structure
• Song-spotting in a musical theatre book
• The art of rewriting
Students must be able to demonstrate their own work via Zoom, by recording themselves playing and singing it at the piano/keyboard, or using a recorded scratch demo, which will be downloaded into a dedicated Dropbox before each session. We will also read and discuss Jack Viertel’s book The Secret Life of the American Musical for insight into the musical’s structure. Students are required to have a copy of The Secret Life of the American Musical to use as a class text.