Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Website; List of Text's Figures, Tables, and Photographs 1: Drums, Other Percussion, and a Bit About Rhythm 2: Guitars, the Bass, and an Introduction to Harmony n3: Keyboards and a Summary of Early-Rock Sweetening with Band, Orchestral, and Other Instruments 5: Vocal Color, Technique, and Arrangement 6: Forms: Phrases and Sections 7: Melody: Materials and Patterns 8: Chord Construction 9: Diatonic Harmonic Function 10: Harmony in Minor and Other Non-Major Modes 11: Chromatic Harmony 12: Musical Time: Rhythm, Meter and Tempo 13: Engineering the Master 14: Creating an Interpretation Appendix: Lexicon of Chord Symbols; Further Print Resources In Pop-Rock Music Of The 1950s-'60s Index of Artists, Composers, Song and Album Titles Index of Materials and Techniques
Walter Everett is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music Theory at The University of Michigan. He is author of The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (OUP, 1999) and The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (OUP, 2001).
"A wide-ranging presentation of rock's fundamental elements
compiled lovingly by a committed scholar with deep knowledge of the
repertory." --Journal of the Society for American Music
"One to find space for in the curriculum, since it provides the
basis for systematic work on popular music before and after its
stated period." --Music Analysis
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