Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 4 – April 1994 – Interview: Ben Margulies

Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 4 – April 1994 – Interview: Ben Margulies

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Table of Contents

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FEATURES

INTERVIEW-

BEN MARGULIES………………………………………………………………………… 7

Laura Fissinger and BMI provide us with an insightful piece on Ben Margulies, whose collaborations with Mariah Carey provided them both with several hits and a BMI (most played) Song Of The Year in “Love Takes Time.”

THEORETICALLY SPEAKING-

THE FUNCTION OF VERSE AND CHORUS…………………………………….. 10

David Cat Cohen is back with some more user friendly information

on songwriting craft.

MUSICAL NOTES-

MELODY-THE UNSUNG HERO……………………………………………………… 12

Harriet Schock lobbies for some sense of uniqueness in your melody

writing and trying to achieve it through its adventurous coupling with

rhythm and harmony.

SPOTLIGHT-

JOHN PHILIP SHENALE-PAINTING THE SONIC LANDSCAPE…………… 15

Ivy White chronicles Shenale’s experimental approach to

arrangements on Tori Amos’ new Under The Pink album.

TOOLS OF THE TRADE-

INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC PRESS KITS-PART 2…………………………. 16

Our cyberguru Simon Higgs takes us through a software jungle,

this time to show you the tools available for multimedia production.

THE COLLABORATOR’S SURVIVAL GUIDE-

PROTECTING YOUR CREATIVE PROPERTY…………………………………. 18

Jeff Saxon gives you some basics on collaboration agreements.

CREATIVITY QUICK QUOTES………………………………………………………. 19

In the first of several periodic features, we recap some salient

comments on the creative processes of successful writers and

writer/artists from previous interviews. This time it’s Desmond Child,

Mary-Chapin Carpenter and Martin Page.

LASS NEWS

MEMBER NEWS – NOTEWORTHY – MUSICAL CHAIRS………………………. 4

News about classes, biz events, where your favorite publishers

and A&R reps are this month, good stuff about our Members

and Pickups.

WEEKLY SHOWCASE SCHEDULE………………………………………………….. 6

Cassette RouletteTM (publisher song critiques) and Pitch-A-Thon”

(producers and record company reps looking for songs and acts).

From the Acting Archivist…

Much like the Songmine columns posted earlier, the archives contain a large collection of Songwriter Musepaper publications. With this posting, I am beginning a project to scan the cover and table of contents of each issue and then OCR (convert the scanned picture to text) the table of contents in order to make it searchable. I don’t yet have the staff necessary to create complete scanned issues of the Museupaper, but if there is interest in a particular article or interview, I can scan that and make it available here.

Douglas E. Welch, douglas@welchwrite.com

Previously in Songwriters Musepaper:

• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 12 – December 1992 – Interview: Holly Near
• Songwriter Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 9 – September 1994 – Interview: Jeff Buckley
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 6 – June 1994 – Interview: Richard Thompson
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 7 – July 1995 – Interview: Eddie Money
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 8 – August 1995 – Interview: Hami
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 11 Issue 9 – September 1996 – Interview: Donnie Fritts
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 8 – August 1991 – Interview: Paul Overstreet
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 9 – September 1991 – Interview: Oleta Adams
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 2 – February 1991 – Interview: Mary Chapin-Carpenter
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 9 Issue 10 – October 1994 – Interview: Paula Cole
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 10 – October 1995 – Songwriters Expo 18
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 4 – April 1991 – Interview: Dean Pitchford
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 10 Issue 1 – January 1995 – Interview: Stephanie Davis
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 12 Issue 1 – January 1997 – Interview: Skip Ewing
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 3 Issue 11 – October-November 1988 – Interview: Jules Shear
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 4 Issue 5 – May 1989 – Interview: Lyle Lovett
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 11 Issue 12 December 1996 – Interview: Allan Rich
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 1 – January 1991 – Interview: Fee Waybill
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 4 Issue 1 – January 1989 – Interview: Steve Lukather: Major Guitar Talks Major Songs
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 9 – September 1990 – Interview: Desmond Child
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 4 – April 1992- Interview: Thom Bell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 7 – July 1992 – Interview: Robert Byrne
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 3 – March 1991 – Interview: Alan Silvestri
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 4 – April 1990 – Interview: Michael Jay
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 5 Issue 10 – October 1990 – Songwriters Expo 14 – Interview: Glen Ballard
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 6 Issue 10 – October 1991 – Interview: Dewayne Blackwell
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 9 –  September 1992 – Songwriters Expo 16 – Interview: Jennifer Warnes
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 10 – October 1993 – Cover: Charles John Quarto and Pete Wasner
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 8 Issue 8 – August 1993 – Cover: Interview: Janis Ian
• Songwriters Musepaper – Volume 7 Issue 10 – October 1992 – Cover: Interview: John Trudell