基本説明
The book's main focus is on the materials and structures of the Beatles' melodies, harmonies, counterpoint, rhythms, forms, colors, and textures, and the expressive ways in which these musical devices portray the themes and imagery of their poetry.
Full Description
This volume is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the musical life of the Beatles - composition, performance, recording and reception histories - from the group's beginnings in 1956 through to 1965. Authoritative interpretations from every available reliable musical source are interwoven through a documentary study of thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text should enable general readers and musicians as well as educated music theorists to appreciate more aspects of the music of this celebrated popular music group.
Contents
1. Maps; 2. PRELUDE: Thinking of Living; 3. ONE: And the Band Begins to Play (1956-1960); 4. TWO: Someone to Love, Somebody New (1960-1963); 5. INTERLUDE: I Want to Hold Your Hand; 6. THREE: I'm Not What I Appear to Be (1964); 7. FOUR: I'm Here to Show Everybody the Light (1965); 8. POSTLUDE: The Act You've Known for All These Years (1957-2000); 9. Appendix: Instruments Played by the Early Period Beatles; 10. Table of Chord Functions; 11. Glossary of Terms; Notes; References; Index of Names, Songs, Albums, Videos, and Artworks
