What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time, by Walter Everett and Tim Riley

01 May 2020 What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time. Walter Everett and Tim Riley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Xxi, 296 pp. ISBN: 9780190949877. $99.95. Few rock musicians have inspired such heaps of secondary literature as the Beatles....

Voice Leading and Harmony as Expressive Devices in the Early Music of the Beatles: She Loves You

01 October 1993 applicability of the double-tonic complex in this case, and for the felicitous choice of the word "shadow." authors: Walter Everett author_ids: 1048 authors: Walter Everett author_ids: 1048

Introducing Musical Meaning through Popular Music

20 September 2018 more comfortable forming their own interpretation of the meaning of the music. Meaning and Tendency Tones According to Walter Everett, “the Beatles’s early music displays a substantial variety of dissonance treatment and a rich exploitation of...

When Recollection Is All We've Got: Analytical Explorations of "Catchy" Songs

01 October 2007 "Country-Pop Formulae and Craft: Shania Twain's Crossover Appeal," Expression in Pop-Rock Music, revised edition, ed. Walter Everett. New York: Routledge: 2008. Ricci, Adam. "A 'Hard Habit to Break': The Integration of Harmonic Cycles and Voice-Leading...

[i]Idea[/i] and Analysis: Aspects of Unification in Musical Explanation

01 October 1990 Idea and Analysis: Aspects of Unification in Musical Explanation1 I myself consider the totality of a piece as the idea: the idea which its creator wanted to present. (Arnold Schoenberg, "New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946)," Style and...

Emergent Dissonance and the Resolution of a Paradox

01 October 1996 Our explanations of music over the centuries have not lacked for their perplexities, their mysteries and even contradictions. One of the most persistent anomalies of our history has managed to embody all three: the conceptual duplicity surrounding the...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

Edward T. Cone's [i]The Composer's Voice[/i]: The Camera's Voice

01 October 1989 in film; his later films' development of that potential has been applauded by many critics of film music. In addition, Walter Everett has drawn my attention to two early instances of Hitchcock's masterful use of music as a space-defining device: in...

From Poem to Performance: Brahms's "Edward" Ballade, Op. 10, No. 1

01 October 2008 A performer may develop an interpretation of a piece of music using a number of tools, including analyzing the structure, working out physical motions, following intuitions, and listening to other performances. The process of translating printed notes...

Rock Music, Rock Progressions, and Theory Pedagogy

31 October 2003 sessions devoted to popular music at annual conferences. In addition, numerous scholars, including John Covach, Walter Everett, and Ken Stephenson, have contributed analytical writings that highlight the richness and diversity of popular music. With...