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| Title | : | The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195141059 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
The book's method does not descend to a merely theoretical approach to the Beatles as musicians, but maintains a balance between compositional and performative aspects of their style."--Notes. "Walter Everett's recent contribution to the extensive literature on the Beatles is a welcome addition to the serious musicological study of the most influential rock musicians in history. Everett's work is not only important in elucidating the music of the Beatles, it also serves as a model for further scholarship in rock music."-- ournal of Musicological Research"The Quarry Men to Rubber Soul and its predacessor, Revolver Through the Anthology, are important additions to the literature of rock music study and are necessary volumes for the serious scholar of all popular music stylesa model for further scholarship in rock music."-Jou
The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life--composition, performance, recording and reception histories--from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965. Richly authoritative interpretations from every available reliable musical document are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text will enable general readers and musicians as well as educated music theorists to learn new levels of beauty in the music of the Beatles.
Walter Everett is Associate Professor of Music in Music Theory at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (OUP, 1999).
Rlotz said A Book that Does its Job. Everett’s The Beatles as Musicians is a music theorist’s exploration of the Beatles’ music. During the course of the book, Everett tackles all of their songs—from the early days to Rubber Soul—in the order in which they were recorded, including notes on the instrumentation and writing process. But the real meat of this book are Everett’s analyses of the harmonic structure and voice-leading of the music.In most contexts, I could comfortably say that I have a solid grasp of tonal music theory. (I&. Revolver Through The Anthology" is just as good, if not better due to the fact that Swanny If you're a huge fan of The Beatles, know every album, song, lyric and who played what instrument on which song, this is the logical next step if you also happen to be a musician. Although the book COULD be read by anyone, a very clear understanding of music and theory would be a big bonus in getting into the heads of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison to study their methods of writing.This book may be way over the heads of the average casual Beatles fan, but for those really serious about their music, this is the most detailed and ex. The only indispensable Beatles book, but It is not a work for everybody, if you mean to read it and understand it all. To read this book you need a more than basic knowledge of music theory + a certain amount of time to get used to the author's analytical technique + the transcriptions of (almost) all the Beatles recorded works as published by Wise in UK and Hal Leonard in USA (with all their mistakes, as pointed out by Everett) + all the recordings by the group, not only the official ones but as many bootlegs you can put your hands on. Everett spent lots of time listeni
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