This video summarizes Lori Burns’s excellent chapter, “Vocal Authority and Listener Engagement: Musical and Narrative Expressive Strategies in the Songs of Female Pop-Rock Artists, 1993–95.”
Note: This video uses interactive technology. The picture-in-picture can be swapped or even viewed side-by-side. The video also uses a menu so you can quickly navigate to certain portions of the video. For more explanation, see this video from Kaltura.
download lyric analysis slides– download lyric analysis transcript
Here is a link to the song in the model analysis:
This diagram (Example 7.2 in Burns) summarizes the important terminology introduced in this article.
