Timeline for What to call songs where the author has set music of his own to another authors’ poetry
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| Dec 19, 2023 at 12:33 | comment | added | Stuart F | I don't think there's a standard term for songs with music and lyrics by different people. You could use the heading "Music and lyrics" and "Music only"/"With other lyricist". You don't need to include possessives/apostrophes in a heading, and it's often neater to omit them. | |
| S Dec 18, 2023 at 20:11 | history | suggested | Elements In Space | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
removed "I am not an native English speaker", copy-editing, added relevant tag
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| Dec 18, 2023 at 18:58 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Sep 4, 2015 at 23:36 | comment | added | alephzero | @j6910 Jim's comment about "Adaptations" is wrong. The correct musical term meaning "Adaptation" is "Arrangement," but that means "altering the music," not "using somebody else's words as lyrics". The answers giving "Music by" and "Lyrics by", or "Composer" and "Lyricist", are correct. If the composer changed words that were written by somebody else, you could say "Lyrics adapted from [name of the original poem] by [name of the original poet]", or "Lyrics based on ....". | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 22:03 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 20, 2012 at 1:16 | answer | added | J.R. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 1:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 20, 2012 at 0:13 | answer | added | bib | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 23:38 | comment | added | Jim | You might say, "Original Works" for the category where he's written both music and lyrics. And "Musical Adaptations" for where he's set other people's works to music. | |
| Aug 19, 2012 at 23:32 | history | asked | j6910 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |