Research : Lyric Analysis

We discussed the importance of considering an interpretation of your chosen song's lyrics today.

I showed you how to use Microsoft Word to add comments to your lyrics - here is the example that we did at the start of the lesson.

Your comments should be a mixture of observation, interpretation and questions. 

Think about how a mood is created in the song - a good way to do this is to make a list of all of the adjectives and verbs in the song and think about what type of picture they help to paint. 

Once you have done this, create a post title:

Research : Lyric Analysis : Artist Name 'song'

In this post, provide an explanation of what you have done together with screen shots of your Microsoft Word document.

You could also use a website such as Word It Out to create a word cloud for your song's lyrics. This could then be added to your post as further evidence of your efforts for the examiner.

Copy your lyrics into Word It Out and it will create a word cloud which alters the size of the words according to their frequency in the song. This can help to show where repetition takes place. 

Here is an example for the Frank Hamilton song, 'Summer'.