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The Beatles: Recolver Flashcards

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1
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When we’re The Beatles around?

A

1960s
Popular culture revolution

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What was their sound?

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Distinctly British sound

Used:
Simple melodies
Clever lyrics
Standard song forms
Rhythmic guitar work

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Who was known as the fifth Beatle?

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George Martin

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What opened up new artistic opportunities in the early 1960s?

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Four-track recorders

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What did the primitive four-track recorders lead to?

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Ingenuity
Experimentation
Starteli invention

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What does Revolver (1966) combine?

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Indian influences
Psychedelia
Musique concrète techniques (different:
Ways
Speeds
Backwards
Spliced
Looped
Superimposed (playing over top))

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How did ‘Eleanor Rigby’ break popular musical conventions?

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Musically
Lyrically

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What is ‘Eleanor Rigby’ about?

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Downbeat images of the death of a lonely spinster

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How is ‘Eleanor Rigby’ sung?

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Dispassionate English accent
Devoid of vibrato
Precisely enunciated

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Describe the strings in ‘Eleanor Rigby’

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Striking
More usually found in classical music

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What is the instrumentation of ‘Eleanor Rigby’?

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Vocals
Backing vocals
String ensemble (doubled):
4 violins
2 violas
2 cellos

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What was the score for ‘Eleanor Rigby’ based partly on?
Describe the score

A

Psycho score

Intro
Verse/Refrain x2
Bridge (intro)
Verse/Refrain
Outro/Coda

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Where does the melody of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ mainly lie?

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Dorian mode (seconds degree) on E

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How does the melody of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ mainly move?
With what type of occasional leaps?

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Stepwise motion

Major/minor third

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How fast if the harmonic rhythm in ‘Eleanor Rigby’?

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Slow

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How many chords is ‘Eleanor Rigby’ based of?
What are these chords?

A

2
Em and C

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What type of song is ‘Here, There and Everywhere’?

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A ballad

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What is the tonality of ‘Here, There and Everywhere’?
What does it also pass through?

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G major/Bflat major

Relative minor (Em)
Tonic minor (Gm)

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What instrumentation is particularly prominent in ‘Here, There and Everywhere’?

A

Backing vocals

20
Q

Notice the different guitar sounds in ‘Here, There and Everywhere’

How is a mandolin sound created at one point?
How is a horn-like timbre created?
When is it created?

A

By being played through a Leslie cabinet
My means of the volume pedal
In the final bars

21
Q

What form is ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ in?

A

Extended AABA (aka ballad form or 32-bar song form)

22
Q

Describe the A sections of ‘Here, There and Everywhere’

A

Main section
Each section similar in melody
But usually different in lyrical context

23
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How are the B sections different from the A sections of ‘Here, There and Everywhere’?

A

Musically and lyrically, providing melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and/or textural contrast
Often in a different key

24
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What do the different A and B sections of ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ provide?

A

Change in mood of the song

25
Q

Wha this different about the AABA form in ‘Here, There and Everywhere’?

A

Sections don’t always have 8 bars

26
Q

What is the full structure of ‘Here, There and Everywhere’?

A

Intro
A
A
B
A
B
A
Outro

27
Q

Wha this ‘I want to tell you’ about?

A

The avalanche of thoughts that are hard to write down or say

28
Q

Describe the elements of the lyrics in ‘I want to tell you’

A

Hindu outlook from George Harrison’s fascination with Eastern and Indian philosophy
Allusions to different levels of being
Karmic references to time

29
Q

Give 2 examples of references to time in the lyrics to ‘I want to tell you’
When?
Followed by what?

A

‘I’ll make you maybe next time around’
‘I could wait forever, I’ve got time’
In the final lines
Melisma in the fade out

30
Q

What is the structure of ‘I want to tell you’?

A

Intro
Verse
Verse
Bridge
Verse
Bridge
Verse
Outro (fade out)

31
Q

How could ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ be described?

A

Anarchic soundscape
Collage rather than a song

32
Q

Wha rare the lyrics in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ adapted from?
What was this about?

A

Book ‘the psychedelic experience: a manual based on the Tibetan book of the dead’
Psychedelic perspective

33
Q

What is ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ an attempt to capture?

A

The experience of LSD

34
Q

What did Lennon say he wanted ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ to sound like?

A

The Dalai Lama singing from the highest mountain top

35
Q

How was the eerily detached sound created in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?
When was it used?

A

Putting the vocals through a revolving Leslie cabinet and using automatic double tracking (ADT) to double the vocal image
Final verse

36
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What are the sounds of ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ like?

A

Musique concrète (early form of electronic music)
Modifying the tapes: changing pitch by altering speed for example

37
Q

What is the structure of ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?

A

Intro
X3 verse
Instrumental
X4 verse
Outro

38
Q

Wha two element suggests a mediative state in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?

A

C mixolydian melody
Rises and falls over
C drone

39
Q

What is the basis of the ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ rhythm track?

A

Tambura drone
Guitar
Bass
Drums
Organ
Piano
Tambourine

40
Q

How was the drum sound recorded in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?

A

Playing mainly on a pair of slack-tuned tom-toms
That were damped, compressed and recorded with a massive echo

41
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How were the tape loops created in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?

A

Recording different sounds then treating the sounds in various ways:
Speeding them up
Slowing them down
Playing backwards
Splicing them

42
Q

Wha this loop 1 the sound of in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?

A

Distorted laughter

43
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How many tapes were used in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?

A

5

44
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What does loop 5 form in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?

A

First few bars of the central instrumental break

45
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What is in the second part of the instrumental in ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’?

A

Guitar solo cut up and run backwards

A-level Music Edexcel (13 decks)

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