Hammerstein always wrote lyrics to fit the music until he worked with Rogers. This was common in that style of writing. Hammerstein talks about this in the intro to his collected lyrics.
Stu -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark D. Lew Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:24 AM To: Finale Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: conveying musical meaning >Oh man, difficult and then some! > >I think that Ira Gershwin sometimes worked this way with George's >music too, and the results are pretty uniformly great, no matter what >the order of creation. My favorite example is "Indian Summer". Al Dubin wrote the words to tune which Victor Herbert had written 20 years earlier. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
