Pat Pattison is a professor at

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music () is a Private university, private music college in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern Music of the United ...

in Boston, Massachusetts.

Education

Pattison completed his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

in 1964, and graduate work in Philosophy at

Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, IUB, or Indiana) is a public university, public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is the flagship university, flagship campus of Indiana Univer ...

. He earned a second Master's degree in Literary Criticism at the Kenyon School of Letters in 1968.

Career

Pattison taught Philosophy and Logic at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

for two years before leaving that position to tour with his band, featherrain. Pattison began teaching at

in 1975, first as an English instructor, then as the developer of Berklee's philosophy and poetry electives. He offered a course in literary criticism, and added song lyrics to create the course: Analysis of Song Lyrics. That course aided in the development in Berklee College of Music's songwriting major. Pattison has published in ''Home and Studio Recording Magazine'' and written two books, ''The Essential Guide to Rhyming'', now in a revised second edition in 2014, and ''The Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure''. He published his third book, ''Writing Better Lyrics'', in 1995 and an expanded second edition in 2009. Pattison's fourth book, ''Songwriting without Boundaries: A Lyricist's Guide to Finding Your Voice'' (2012), is an interactive book of four fourteen-day challenges, and focuses on the creative process through Object Writing and Metaphor. In 2013 Pattison wrote and began instruction of a Songwriting Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) through Coursera. The course has now had over 700,000 registrants in its several offerings. He authored a 2015 piece: "Co-Writing:The No-Free Zone" for ''

American Songwriter ''American Songwriter'' is a bimonthly magazine covering songwriting. Established in 1984, it features interviews, songwriting tips, news, reviews and lyric contest. The magazine is based in Nashville, Tennessee. History The ''American Songwri ...

''.

References

External links

Pat Pattison official web site
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