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The Beatles (Rhythm, Tempo, Metre (all 4/4 bar TNK goes between 4/4 and…
The Beatles
Rhythm, Tempo, Metre
all 4/4 bar TNK goes between 4/4 and 7/8
syncopation in TNK and ER and IWTTY
homorhythmic strings
ER clear pulse
HTAE after intro there is a steady pulse
rubarto in intro for HTAE
triplets in IWTTY
TNK crossrhythms
context
from 'revolver'
LSD
Ravi Shankar
here there and everywhere
inspired by Beach Boys God Only Knows
tomorrow never knows
chanting Dali Lama on top of the mountain
based on the Tibetan book of the dead
LSD
crucial turning point - conventional until then
eleanor rigby
real gravestone
dark lyrics
classical influence
George
i want to tell you
sitar and ravi shankar
indian philosophy
LSD
avalanche of thoughts
melody
repetitive TNK
soundscape not a song
guitar blues scale
Eleanopr Rigby verse chorus
octave jumps
stepwise/conjunct mainly
mainly syllabic however in IWTTY he does a melisma for the prayer call
IWTTY george harrison vocal range is limited
HTAE
unusual phrase lengths
quite high tessatura
some appoggiaturas throughout
instrumentation
classical strings in ER
psycho as high and persistant
sitar in IWTTY
world music
technology
loops/samples
George laugh backwards
guitar played backwards
reverse cymbals
distortion
unusual
leslie cabinet
changes frequencies
fade out
drums
slackened the skins on the drums to make it like an echo kind of
guitar, drums, bass, singer, piano
Harmony
eleanor rigby
close harmony in the chorus
3rds
E dorian
diatonic
based on Em and C mainly
tonic pedal in chorus
TNK
C mixolydian
tamboura drone of a C
blues scale
occasional C and Bb played at the same time
IWTTY
Amajor
rag scale
unusual chords - dim7ths
extreme dissonance of the 9th persistant B
HTAE
interesting tonality
dual as it is in G maj and Bbmajor
some instruments in either key
not related
dissonance
false relations
different parts
dom7th preperation
structure
Eleanot Rigby - strophic but refrain rather chorus
TNK is repetitive
texture
mainly homophonic but polyphonic in some of TNK