What are Lyrics?

For the purpose of this paper, when I talk about lyrics I am speaking of words set to music, though please note that music is notoriously difficult to define (Levitin, 2006). Considering the definition of lyrics as, “words placed to a melody” it would be impossible to talk about lyrics without talking about music. They support each other and work together to create one experience, an experience that would not be the same with one aspect missing. Music has long been an effective way to communicate to the masses, and lyrics have played a massive role. Scholars have found evidence that emotions can be influenced by purely instrumental music. However, only a few studies exploring music and emotion have included lyrics (Juslin, 2005). While it is difficult to find conventional academic studies of lyrics, history has a long documentation. In The Singing Neanderthal, Steven Mithen (2006) goes into great detail of the origin of music, language, mind, and body. Mithen says that it is hard to tell what came first music or language, which quite possibly means that lyrics have been around since the origin of language itself (2006). Perhaps it wasn’t used in a particularly deliberate way, as it is in songwriting, but the partnership of music and words was there. In fact, the first documented melody was written in the 1400s (Wulstan, 1971). With the close relationship of language and music it would be fair to deduce that the first lyrics came shortly after. Over time, we know music and lyricswoow have been a part of every society (Levitin, 2006). From Gregorian chants, used to memorize and communicate religious passages and psalms (Apel, 1958) to protest songs of the civil rights movement in the early sixties (Rodnitsky, 1969)

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