This is a comprehensive introduction to the inner workings of rock music. Everett takes readers through all aspects of the music and its lyrics, leading fans and listeners to new insights and new ways to develop their own interpretations of the aural landscapes of their lives.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Website; List of
Text's Figures, Tables, and Photographs
1: Drums, Other Percussion, and a Bit About Rhythm
2: Guitars, the Bass, and an Introduction to Harmony
3: Keyboards and a Summary of Early-Rock
4: Sweetening with Band, Orchestral, and Other Instruments
5: Vocal Color, Technique, and Arrangement
6: Forms: Phrases and Sections
7: Melody: Materials and Patterns
8: Chord Construction
9: Diatonic Harmonic Function
10: Harmony in Minor and Other Non-Major Modes
11: Chromatic Harmony
12: Musical Time: Rhythm, Meter and Tempo
13: Engineering the Master
14: Creating an Interpretation
Appendix: Lexicon of Chord Symbols; Further Print
Resources In Pop-Rock Music Of The 1950s-'60s
Index of Artists, Composers, Song and Album Titles
Walter Everett is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music Theory at The University of Michigan. He is author of The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (OUP, 1999) and The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (OUP, 2001).
Pressestimmen
"A wide-ranging presentation of rock's fundamental elements compiled lovingly by a committed scholar with deep knowledge of the repertory." --Journal of the Society for American Music"One to find space for in the curriculum, since it provides the basis for systematic work on popular music before and after its stated period." --Music Analysis
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