The Beatles

Question 1

love me do

Answer 1

harmonica

unusual bridge length → 12 bars, usually 8

Question 2

all my loving

Answer 2

contrasting bridge section

country music

Question 3

a hard days night

Answer 3

opening chord → jazz chord

sung bridge*

bridge that morphs into second half of verse*

outro → another interesting chord

Question 4

help!

Answer 4

sung intro*

no bridge

Question 5

norwegian wood (the bird has flown)

Answer 5

sitar

incomplete verses

Question 6

michelle

Answer 6

french lyrics

multi tracking

Question 7

eleanor rigby

Answer 7

string quartet texture

lyrics dealing with death

Question 8

tomorrow never knows

Answer 8

indian and electric sounds

psychedelic text

Question 9

lucy in the sky with diamonds

Answer 9

verse and chords in different speeds and meters

echo-y and distorted sounds

Question 10

within you without you

Answer 10

indian classical instruments

indian classical melodies

Question 11

strawberry fields forever

Answer 11

background music to chorus changes each time picking up in intensity

asymmetrical bar length

Question 12

all you need is love

Answer 12

asymmetrical bar lengths (with triple divisions of beats)

self quotation (“she loves you”)

Question 13

honey pie

Answer 13

vaudeville sounds (instrumentation and lyrics)

form “breaks” a few rules (chorus with changing lyrics)

Question 14

revolution 9

Answer 14

avant-garde electronic composition

Question 15

something

Answer 15

bridge in different rhythm

Question 16

i want you (shes so heavy)

Answer 16

song in different rhythms

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Question 17

know the definitions for verse, chorus, refrain and bridge

Answer 17

verse → session of lyrics (text and music)

chorus → lyrics that are repetitious, often contain song title

refrain → verse with different lyrics but same last line

bridge → contrasting transition section

Question 18

which Beatles recording first featured the sitar? who performed on the instrument, and who was his teacher in India?

Answer 18

Norwegian wood (the bird has flown) was the first song to feature the sitar. George Harrison played the instrument and his teacher was Ravi Shankar

Question 19

provide the five elements/characteristics of psychedelic artwork and psychedelic music

Answer 19

highly distorted and similar visuals/sounds

sound effects

reverberation

bright colors and full spectacles

animation

Question 20

know the definitions for simple, compound, and additive (referring to quality of the beat), as well as the term backbeat

Answer 20

simple → even division of beats

compound → triple division of beats

additive → beats within a bar are a combination of simple and compound

backbeat → mostly found in bars of few beats when beat 2 and 4 are accentuated

Question 21

he Beats of the 1950s were against what five aspects of society?

Answer 21

moneytheism → soul-numbing materialism

societies approved depressants

rationalism

repression

recism

Question 22

name 5 institutions named in the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Answer 22

the old school

teatime

the house of lords

the english army

the royal albert hall

Question 23

name five places (there are more) where the Beatles performed the month of August (1964).

Answer 23

the hollywood bowl, los angeles

empire stadium, vancouver

forest hills stadium, new york

convention hall, las vegas

seattle center coliseum, seattle