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Finishing the Hat and Look, I Made a Hat by Stephen Sondheim

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The Three Principles of Lyric Writing

There are only three principles necessary for lyric writer, all of them familiar truisms. They were not immediately apparent to me when i started writing but have come to interfocus with fy oscar hamerstein's tutoring and strunken white's huge little book. If a lyric writer observes this mantra rigorously, he can turn out a respectable lyric. With an understanding composer and a stimulating book writer, thiskis the limit. Ahg, my heart is singing so inspiring. It's so inspiring. I wish more lyricists would just read that introduction. Because y people almost always talk about music halls in terms of er the songs. But they don't actually look at the

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