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Beatles analyzed
In 1989 the American musicologist Alan W. Pollack started to analyze the songs of the Beatles. He published his first results on internet. In 1991 — after he had finished the work on 28 songs — he bravely decided to do the whole lot of them. About ten years later, in 2000 he completed the analysis of the official Beatles’ canon, consisting of 187 songs and 25 covers. Now the journal on media culture soundscapes.info have ordered this massive work in five categories. And, for your convenience, they have added an alphabetical, a canonical and a chronological index as well as a short introduction.
You can find all materials here.
The work is beautiful and very accurate. For each song Pollack analyze the structure, the style, form, melody, harmony and arrangement. A detailed section-by-section walkthrough follows. This is a very important resource for every people interested in popular music.
Tags: analisi, beatles
2006-08-19 @ 12.10 pm
Ecco.
Lo sapevo.
Altre ore e ore a leggere queste memorabilia…
Fantastico!
Tempo fa avevo trovato qualcosa di simile (sebbene molto meno accurato) sul repertorio dei Queen ma l’indirizzo non è ora più disponibile…
Temo dovrò sospender la vita quotidiana
2008-01-02 @ 3.40 pm
Quante sere trascorse a cercare di capire i Beatles ed adesso ho trovato l’impensabile e l’imponderabile grazie e mondo e ti amo LAVinia.