Rhyme Genie 5 offers a refined user interface to take advantage of Apple's new high resolution Retina Display. With 110,000 new entries the integrated syllable-matching thesaurus has been expanded to encompass 537,000 synonyms. The rhyming dictionary now features a total of 327,000 entries with the latest additions consisting of over 5000 traditional proverbs and all major country hit songs of the last 50 years.Ĭoinciding with the update of Rhyme Genie is the release of TuneSmith 2, which can run the rhyming dictionary as a plug-in. Introduced last year as a free companion software to Rhyme Genie on the Mac and the Windows platforms, the new version of TuneSmith adds a chord sheet editor to its song creation and administration features. "TuneSmith's chord sheet editor enables songwriters to add professionally formatted chord symbols with matching guitar chord charts to their lyrics. In addition, an integrated chord dictionary allows you to look up the notes, fret positions and intervals of over 4800 chords. "Songs should reflect the writer, not a rhyme dictionary"? You haven't a clue."Even with its greatly enhanced functionality, which now includes a song catalog manager, a pitch journal, a lyrics editor and an audio recorder, TuneSmith can still be installed on as many computers as desired completely free of charge by all registered users of Rhyme Genie." An unlimited number of custom chord charts can be maintained with TuneSmith," states Wier. That kind of arrogance in someone who pretends to being a creative artist is very sad, indeed. I also find particularly sad the assumption that, not only is there one kind of music, but there is only one way to write it. I would be happy to match my "mastery" of English against yours any time you like.Īnd, finally, I'll tell you what I find sad: the assumption by many on this site that the universe of music is limited to popular songs of the sort downloaded from iTunes or traded as torrents. Of course, I have to wonder if you even know why they are.Īs for being a "master of language," I have a BA, MFA and PhD (ABD), all in theater, as well as a JD, and I earn my living as a lawyer, writing pleadings, conducting trials, and arguing before various appellate courts in the U.S. I'm sure they would be surprised to learn that you think their work sounds like it came out of Orwell's futuristic totalitarian society. I doubt any of them have an interest in a lyric writing machine, either. Stephen Schwartz - Pippin, Wicked - uses a rhyming dictionary. Oscar Hammerstein, lyricist who shaped the American Broadway Stage - Oklahoma, The King and I, Carousel - used both a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus. Stephen Sondheim, acknowledged as the greatest lyricist and composer of the musical stage - Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, among many others - uses both a rhyming dictionary and a thesaurus. Even Paul Simon, one of the greatest popular lyricists and composers of the 20th century, failed miserably when he tried to write a musical - his "Cape Man" ran for only a week before closing to horrible notices. This is why no pop composer has ever written a successful musical (with the exception of a very few who also have had extensive theater experience). Both music and lyrics in theater function entirely different than in a pop song. Lyrics must be in the voice of the character who sings them. In musical theater, songs are part of the action, as is the music, and both must advance the story. The demands of lyrics and music for the musical stage are completely different than for other musical forms and, particularly, popular music. No, I wouldn't buy a lyric writing machine if such a thing existed. Click to expand.It's not a question of what I want to hear, but my belief that you are dead wrong.
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