The Beatles, Revolver, I Want To Tell You Flashcards
What is the context/background for I want to tell you?
George Martin experimenting with LSD
What are the lyrics influenced by?
Reflect Hindu philosophy & Indian
‘maybe next time around’ - reincarnation
How is the instrumentation more conventional?
More prominent drums & piano block chords
(sonority)
What do close harmony vocals create?
Dense texture
Lots of triads
(sonority)
What is the tessitura & range of George Harrison?
Lower tessitura
Narrow range of 4th: A -> D mostly
(sonority)
What is the tessitura of Paul McCartney?
High
(sonority)
What technology does I want to tell you use that here, there & everywhere also used?
Leslie speaker
(sonority)
Describe the intro
Only Harris guitar
4 bars, repeated 2 bars
Over pedal A
Alternating tonic (I) & subdominant (IV) chords
(structure)
What is the structure?
Intro: 4 bars
Verse 1: 11 bars
Verse 2 (repeat)
Bridge: bar 27, middle 8 bars
Verse 3 (repeat)
Bridge (repeat)
Outro/coda: 36-41
(structure)
What is unusual about verse 1?
11 bars
(structure)
What chords are used in verse 1?
3.5 bars on A
Moves up a tone to B flat
(harmony)
What happens in bar 10?
Extreme dissonance
Fm9natural against E7 chord
Produces unattractive 4 bar ostinato
Repeated F & E alternation = obsessive
(harmony)
What is unstable about the bridge/middle 8?
Bm supertonic (II)
(harmony)
How does it end after the outro/coda?
Melismatic Harrison chant chord
Long dim./fade out
Influenced by sitar sound
Harrison Eastern philosophy
42-end
(harmony)
What type of chords are used in I want to tell you?
Diminished
(harmony)
