Eleanor Rigby Flashcards
Beatles
String octet
Psycho
(Hermann)
Divisi
Viva la vida
(Coldplay)
Double stopping
Rather be
(Clean Bandit)
Wanted it to be an experience
A day in the life
(Beatles)
Accents and staccato
Bad guy
(Billie Eilish)
Angry sound
Sorry not sorry
(Demi Lovato)
Accompaniment becomes syncopated
sergeant Pepper’s lonely hearts club
(beatles)
Octave leap
Don’t stop believin’
(Journey)
Compound minor 3rd leap
Somewhere over the rainbow
(Garland)
Cello plays a C
(Lowest note it can play)
Eleanor’s dream
(Paul McCartney)
Conjunct Lydian scale
The fool on the hill
(Magical Mystery Tour)
Tenuto markings
A day in the life
(Beatles)
Metric displacement
Money
(Floyd)
Bare 5ths
Kashmir
(Zepplin)
Descending sequence in all the instruments at the end of the piece
Rhapsody in blue
(Gershwin)
Cello mimics and doubles the voice
Race for the prize
(Flaming lips)
NOT THE CELLO THAT MIMICS THOUGH
Intro
Verse 1
Verse 2
Bridge
Verse 3
Outro
Thriller
(MJ)
Verses = 10 bars long
Odd bc. they’re composed of 2 5 bar phrases
Paranoid Android
(Radiohead)
C lydian mode undefined
(Em <-> C)
Life on mars
(Bowie)
Piece starts on chord 6
Rolling in the deep
(Adele)
V1 = E Dorian
Time of the season
(Zombie)
V2 = C Lydian
Across the universe
(Beatles)
V3 = Inverted pedal note on E
+ goes to Am
Baba O’Riley
(The Who)
Refrain = pedal note on E
+ Viola descends chromatically
In the hall of the mountain king
(Grieg)