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Formal Structure in Beatles Music: [65] "Day Tripper"

3/31/2013

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Formal structure of [65] "Day Tripper":
          Intro (trans.)  0:00-0:18*
          Verse 1       0:18-0:46
          Trans.        0:46-0:53
          Verse 2      0:53-1:21
          Trans./Break/Solo     1:21-1:42*
          Trans.         1:42-1:49
          Verse 3       1:49-2:17
          Trans.         2:17-2:31
          Coda (trans.)  2:31-2:46

Comments: Many Beatles recordings to date used two-part intros in which a single instrument starts, then after a few seconds the rest of the band joins in ([6b] "A Taste Of Honey", [11] "Thank You Girl", [17] "Little Child", [14b] "Roll Over Beethoven", [24] "You Can't Do That", and [31b] "Matchbox", [37] "Baby's in Black", [38b] "Mr. Moonlight", [45] "I Feel Fine", [46e] "Honey Don't", [47] "Ticket to Ride", and [62] "Run For Your Life"). "Day Tripper" is similar, but doubles the intro into four parts: first we hear a lone guitar, then it's joined by the bass, followed shortly by the tambourine, and then finally the drum set.

"Day Tripper" is the first Beatles recording to use and introduction based on transitional material, and also the first to use a coda likewise based on transitional material. In this case, that means the famous opening guitar lick, which functions as "musical glue" connecting the various formal components.

The Trans./Break/Solo employs elements of all three, so exactly what to call it is uncertain - it really is a mix of all three.

The verses employ a modified 12 bar blues structure. For more detailed analysis on that aspect, read my 14 January 2013 blog.
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The History of "Strawberry Fields Forever", Part 7: Abbey Road, Take 1

3/30/2013

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On 24 November 1966, the Beatles entered the recording studio for the first time in the last 155 days (since 21 June ) - the longest such stretch of the Beatles' career. The entire seven-and-a-half-hour session was dedicated solely to rehearsing and recording take 1 of "Strawberry Fields Forever".
A transcription of this first take is below. (Click the picture to enlarge.) Note: In many instances, the rhythms have been simplified for the sake of visual simplicity.
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Once again, this version shows significant changes from the previous version (Lennon's Kenwood Demo, blogged about on 2013.03.23):

There is yet another key change. It is now in B major instead of C major. The reason for this change is uncertain.

Also, a new verse has been added - not at the end, but at the beginning ("Living is easy with eyes closed..."). This brings the total number of verses to three, all of which would be retained (albeit slightly modified) through the song's release.

The biggest changes, however, are in instrumentation, because now for the first time the song is played by the band instead of just Lennon by himself. In addition to Lennon's guitar and lead vocals, Paul plays the mellotron (a predecessor to the modern-day synthesizer), George played around with his slide guitar, and Ringo adds percussion. Additionally, backing vocals are added to the third verse ("Always, no, sometimes..."). (Note that on The Beatles Anthology these harmonies are inexplicably removed. The version found on the album It's Not Too Bad retains those backing vocals, and that is the version above.)

Lastly, the coda has been greatly expanded - an instrument closing featuring Paul's mellotron playing that will ultimately be used as the intro instead of the outro.
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Formal Structure in Beatles Music: [64] "Drive My Car"

3/29/2013

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Formal structure of "Drive My Car"
         Intro (ind)  0:00-0:05*
         Verse 1         0:05-0:21
         Chorus         0:21-0:36
         Verse 2        0:36-0:52
         Chorus        0:52-1:08
         Solo             1:08-1:23*
         Chorus        1:23-1:39
         Verse 3       1:39-1:55
         Chorus       1:55-2:10
         Coda (chorus)  2:10-2:28

Comments: The a-metric introduction is entirely musically independent of the rest of the song.

The solo essentially functions as another verse, just with the lyrics replaced with a guitar solo.
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"Aeolian Cadence"

3/28/2013

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On 27 December 1963, The [London] Times published a now-famous article titled "What Songs the Beatles Sang", with the byline "From our music critic", presumed to William Mann. In his article (the full text of which may found here), Mann wrote, "one gets the impression that they think simultaneously of harmony and melody, so firmly are the major tonic sevenths and ninths built into their tunes, and the flat submediant key switches, so natural is the Aeolian cadence at the end of Not A Second Time (the chord progression which ends Mahler's Song of the Earth)."

As a well-educated musician, I am both intrigued and confused by Mann's words. While I know what the terms "aeolian" and "cadence" mean separately, I have never previously encountered them used together. In his book A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song, Steve Turner is equally perplexed: "An 'aeolian cadence' is not a recognised musical description and generations of music critics have puzzled over exactly what Mann was referring to" (page 40).

A quick Google search of the term "aeolian cadence" produces two basic types of results: first, those quoting Mann's article; second, those asking what Mann's article means. (Try it and you'll see.) This blog, then, will weigh the evidence in an attempt to discover precisely what he meant.

The term "aeolian" refers to a specific type of scale consisting of the following interval pattern: W H W W H W W (where W = whole step, H= half step). This is the same pattern as the natural minor scale, and may also be described as the notes A to A on the piano if you play only the white keys.

The term "cadence" refers to a concluding musical gesture, and cadences are usually found at the end of structural sections, or at the end of a song. Quoting a very popular and widely-used harmony textbook, "We use the term cadence to mean a harmonic goal, specifically the chords used at the goal" (Kostka/Payne, page 152). If the goal is reached at the end of a song, there is no reason to conclude by fade out. On the other hand, that sense of harmonic conclusion may be obfuscated by a fade out instead of a cadence. Though I suppose it is possible for a song to use both a concluding cadence and a fade out, I do not believe I have ever heard a song that actually does so. It would, after all, be redundant since both cadences and fade outs are concluding gestures.

"Not a Second Time", however, is in G major (not aeolian) and uses a fade out instead of a cadence for its conclusion; so what exactly Mann was referring to by "Aeolian cadence at the end of Not A Second Time" is uncertain. My best guess is that the last several seconds of the song feature just two chords: G major and E minor, and the G major scale (G-A-B-C-D-E-F#-G) and the E aeolian (from which the chord E minor can be extracted) scale (E-F#-G-A-B-C-D-E) share identical notes, they just start on different pitches, making these two tonalities very closely related. I wonder if Mann heard this progression and mistakenly identified it as a cadence.

Some scholars have concluded otherwise, suggesting Mann was referring instead to the E minor chords that follow D7 chords at the end of the Middle 8s:
          Am                                                                      Bm          D7                            Em
          You hurt me then, You're back again. No, no, no, not a second time.

Personally, I find this explanation less satisfying than the one above because (1) it's not "at the end" of the song, as the article specifies (though perhaps the article meant "at the end of the Middle 8"?); and (2) this pattern is known - as it was in 1963 - as a deceptive cadence, in which the fifth scale degree (in this case D7) resolves not to the first scale degree (G) as a listener might expect, but rather to the sixth (E minor). But Dominic Pedler, in his book The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, addresses that concern head-on: "Mann would argue that it is not the same thing as a "V-vi" Interrupted or Deceptive cadence because - at that precise point in the song - the role of the E minor as a "vi" is being questioned and is veering towards tonic status" (page 137).  Yet this is uncertain: Typically a B7 would be needed to justify E minor as "tonic status", and the chord used in the song is a Bm - not a B7. This subtle but significant difference implies that E minor is not tonic, and thus this progression is a deceptive cadence.

Or maybe that's precisely why Mann referred to this as an aeolian cadence and not a deceptive cadence - because if the song is in E aeolian, B would be minor (since D is natural, not sharp). Basically it comes down to opinion: How do you hear this passage - with G as tonic, or with E as tonic?
                          Am                                                                      Bm          D7                            Em
                          You hurt me then, You're back again. No, no, no, not a second time.
G major:        ii                                                                            iii            V7                            vi
E aeolian:      iv                                                                           v           bVII7                        i

Both are unusual, and evidence can be presented in favor of both, but I have to say I hear G as tonic, making this a deceptive cadence - particularly when looking on a slightly larger scale. Here are the lyrics and chords immediately preceding the passage in question:
          Am7                                 Bm7                   G                            Em
          You're giving me the same old line. I'm wondering why.
In this instance, G is quite clearly tonic. This firm tonal grounding and the use of very similar chords immediately following lends credence to calling the original progression a deceptive cadence and not an aeolian cadence.

Another option: Perhaps Mann simply got his vocab terms confused and really meant "deceptive cadence" when he wrote "aeolian cadence". While this interpretation solves the problem of a lack of cadence, the issue over "at the end" remains. At the end... of what? If it's the end of the Middle 8, then problem solved; but if it's at the end of the song, we are still left with uncertainty.

Mann provides another clue when he claims that the same chord progression concludes Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), but simple observation proves otherwise. Below is a reduction of the last 10 measures of Das Lied (click to enlarge in a new window).
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This example shows a C9 chord (though the root is absent from these measures, it is heard shortly beforehand and a listener would have no problem retaining that tonality in their mind's ear) resolving to a C6 chord at marker 69. That C6 chord is the harmony that concludes the piece. By contrast, "Not a Second Time" concludes by fading out over alternating G and Em chords. While not entirely unrelated (both make use of the sixth scale degree), the degree of relation is far removed. Thus, the claim that "Not a Second Time" and Das Lied end with the same progression is irrefutably false. It would, in fact, be far more accurate to compare the ending of the Mahler to the ending of "She Loves You" (which was released four months prior to Mann's article) , which also ends with an added sixth chord.

However, Mann has clearly shown that the word "end" is open to great interpretation. If, as was suggested early, Mann meant to refer to the cadence "at the end [of the middle 8]", then perhaps his use of the term "end" is similarly flexible regarding the Mahler: Perhaps the cadence is in the final movement of Das Lied, not at the very end but perhaps at the end of a particular section; yet listening to the entire 6th movement of Das Lied yields no such cadence. In fact, much of Mahler's later work (such as Das Lied and the 9th and 10th Symphonies) "follows Wagner's lead in taking tonality closer and closer to the breaking point. Nearly every piece of music before Wagner's time was very clearly in a particular key; Mahler's music, on the other hand, has long stretches that don't seem to be in a key at all" (Pogue, page 61). Cadences are largely dependent on tonality, and without tonality, the impact and effect of cadences are greatly thwarted. Nevertheless, Mahler scholar Constantin Floros found what he believed to be deceptive cadences at rehearsal marker 24-26 of the final movement of Das Lied in his book Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies (page 267-68), illustrated as a piano reduction below (click to enlarge): 
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Personally, I don't hear these as cadences. Modulations, certainly, but the tonal expectation that characterizes cadences (and especially deceptive cadences) is greatly lacking in this excerpt - to the point where I cannot justify the label of cadence of any kind, much less deceptive cadence.

Even if these were explicitly clear deceptive cadences, they are not very similar to the progression in "Not a Second Time". In each of the three potential cadences in the Mahler, the bass ascends by half step (B-flat to C-flat, G to A-flat, and F to F-sharp), while the Beatles' cadence ascends by whole step (D to E).

(Parenthetically, Mahler did use deceptive cadences in his 4th and 5th Symphonies. Maybe Mann was confused and meant to say one of those works instead of Das Lied? That might be too much of a stretch - even for William Mann.)

After all of that, I think it's safe to say that regardless of what William Mann really meant, he failed to clearly express his ideas. Even so, Mann's article remains widely cited and quoted because even though Mann's analysis is faulty, it is the first instance of Beatles music being seriously analyzed. Quoted from 1972 in The Beatles Anthology, John Lennon (the song's primary author) said, "I still don't know what it means at the end, but it made us acceptable to the intellectuals. It worked and we were flattered." (page 96). Even so, Lennon could not help but make fun of the article, admitting a "quiet giggle when straight-faced critics start feeding all sorts of hidden meanings into the stuff we write. William Mann wrote the intellectual article about the Beatles. He uses a whole lot of musical terminology and he's a twit" (Anthology, page 96); and in a 1980 interview with David Sheff of Playboy, Lennon (despite mistakenly remembering the article referring to "It Won't Be Long") claimed, "To this day I don't have any idea what [aeolian cadences] are. They sound like exotic birds" (page 87).


CITATIONS
Beatles. The Beatles Anthology. Chronicle Books, 2000.

Floros, Constantin. Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies. Amadeus Press, Portland OR, 1993.

Kostka, Stefan and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995.

Pedler, Dominic. The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles. Omnibus Press, 2001.

Pogue, David and Scott Speck. Classical Music for Dummies. IDG Books Worldwide, Chicago, IL, 1997.

Sheff, David. All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. St. Martin's Griffin, 1981.

Turner, Steve. A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song. itbooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
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Formal Structure in Beatles Music: [63] "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"

3/25/2013

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Formal structure of [63] "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
         Intro (verse)   0:00-0:16*    E major
         Verse 1              0:16-0:32       E major
         Middle 8           0:32-0:48       E minor
         Verse 2             0:48-1:04       E major
         Break                1:04-1:20        E major
         Middle 8         1:20-1:36         E minor
         Verse 3           1:36-1:53          E major
         Coda (verse)  1:53-2:05       E major

Comments: Another two-part intro (along with [6b] "A Taste Of Honey", [11] "Thank You Girl", [17] "Little Child", [14b] "Roll Over Beethoven", [24] "You Can't Do That", and [31b] "Matchbox", [37] "Baby's in Black", [38b] "Mr. Moonlight", [45] "I Feel Fine", [46e] "Honey Don't", [47] "Ticket to Ride", and [62] "Run For Your Life") in which a single instrument - in this case guitar - is heard briefly before the rest of the instruments join in to create the backing track over which the lead vocals will be added at the start of the first verse.

The song is in E major, but the Middle 8s switch from E major to E minor - a shift between the parallel major and minor, reminiscent of [33] "I'll Be Back" and [35] "Things We Said Today".
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The History of "Strawberry Fields Forever", Part 6: The Kenwood Demo

3/23/2013

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John Lennon returned to England from Spain on 7 November 1966. At some point between then and 24 November, he recorded a demo at Kenwood, his mansion in Weybridge.

A recording of this demo may be found on this YouTube video from 8:48-10:56.
Note: A version of this take appears on Disc 2, Track 1 of the second Beatles Anthology album. The song has been edited, however, for reasons unknown, and is thus not an accurate portrayal of the actual demo that Lennon recorded. A more real and accurate recording can be found on the bootleg album "It's Not Too Bad", described in detail on this website: http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=pb1008&section=1. I have been unable to locate any way to purchase the album, but it may be downloaded for free from this website: http://beatlesfordownload.blogspot.com/2012/05/beatles-its-not-too-bad.html.

A transcription of the full Kenwood demo is below. (Click the picture to enlarge.)

Note: In many instances, the rhythms have been simplified for the sake of visual simplicity.
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The first thing to notice is that instead of in being in A major, the song is now in C major. Why is unknown.

The next important aspect is that two verses are now complete - both musically and lyrically. The last take had just the first line of the second verse complete. Since then, Lennon finished the lyrics of the second line. All that is now missing is verse 1 ("Living is easy with eyes closed...").

Also, the chorus has been greatly modified - particularly the ending of the chorus, the lyrics of which at last take were "Strawberry Fields and nothing" (which may well be placeholder lyrics until he figured out something better), and is now "Strawberry Fields forever". This is, in fact, the first time the title lyrics are used in the song, and is therefore presumably when Lennon changed the song's name from "It's Not Too Bad" to "Strawberry Fields Forever". These changes would be retained through to the release.

Lastly, the Kenwood demo is the first instance of the coda ("coda" is Italian for "tail" - meaning the end of the song). This, too, would be retained through to the release (though the released version will add a great deal to it).

"Strawberry Fields Forever" was now ready for the recording studio.
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Formal Structure in Beatles Music: [62] "Run For Your Life"

3/13/2013

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Formal structure of [62] "Run For Your Life":
          Intro (trans.)   0:00-0:08*
          Verse 1              0:08-0:19
          Chorus              0:19-0:30
          Trans.               0:30-0:35
          Verse 2             0:35-0:46
          Chorus             0:46-0:57
          Solo                  0:57-1:13
          Verse 3           1:13-1:24
          Chorus           1:24-1:35
          Trans.           1:35-1:40
          Verse 4         1:40-1:51
          Chorus          1:51-2:02
          Trans.           2:02-2:08
          Coda (trans.) 2:08-2:18

Comments: Yet another two-part intro (along with [6b] "A Taste Of Honey", [11] "Thank You Girl", [17] "Little Child", [14b] "Roll Over Beethoven", [24] "You Can't Do That", and [31b] "Matchbox", [37] "Baby's in Black", [38b] "Mr. Moonlight", [45] "I Feel Fine", [46e] "Honey Don't", and [47] "Ticket to Ride") in which a single instrument - in this case guitar - is heard briefly before the rest of the instruments join in to create the backing track over which the lead vocals will be added at the start of the first verse.

Both intro and coda are based on the transitions (neither of which has happened in any Beatles recording to date).

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The History of "Strawberry Fields Forever", Part 5: Spain Recording #6

3/11/2013

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The fifth Spain take was a false start (recording lingo for "broke down shortly after began"), but the sixth and final recording Lennon did of "It's Not Too Bad" shows substantial progress since the fourth take.

A recording may be found on this YouTube video, from 6:11-7:55 (though something weird happens around 7:41).
A transcription of this sixth take is below. (Click the picture to enlarge.)

Note: In many instances, the rhythms have been simplified for the sake of visual simplicity.
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Take four contained the first instance of a melody and lyrics in the chorus. This sixth take, then, takes the next step by completing the melody and lyrics. Well, sort of. In this form, the chorus is complete in that it is not missing any parts. The chorus, however, would sound very different by the time Lennon recorded the next series of demos some weeks later back in England.
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Formal Structure in Beatles Music: [61] "Wait"

3/10/2013

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Formal structure of [61] "Wait":
          Verse 1      0:00-0:12       F# minor
          Chorus       0:12-0:21       A major
          Verse 2      0:21-0:33       F# minor
          Chorus       0:33-0:41      A major
          Middle 8    0:41-0:57      A major
          Verse 3       0:57-1:08      F# minor
          Chorus        1:08-1:17       A major
          Middle 8     1:17-1:32       A major
          Verse 4       1:32-1:44      F# minor
          Chorus        1:44-1:53       A major
          Verse 5        1:53-2:03      F# minor
          Coda (verse)  2:03-2:13*     F# minor

Comments: No intro - starts right up with the verse (just like [15] "All My Loving", [19] "Not a Second Time", [29b] "Long Tall Sally", [42] "No Reply", [46b] "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby", and [58] "I'm Down").

Coda is an extension of the verse.

The formal structure of "Wait" is often delineated through tonality. The verses are all in F# minor, while the choruses and middle 8s are all in the relative major, A. [25] "And I Love Her" uses similar tonal dialogue between the relative major and minor, and [33] "I'll Be Back" and [35] "Things We Said Today" between the parallel major and minor.
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Formal Structure in Beatles Music: [60b] "Act Naturally"

3/7/2013

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Formal structure of [60] "Act Naturally":
          Intro (verse)  0:00-0:06
          Verse 1             0:06-0:27
          Middle 8          0:27-0:47
          Verse 2            0:47-1:08
          Solo                  1:08-1:18
          Verse 3           1:18-1:39
          Middle 8        1:39-2:00
          Verse 4          2:00-2:21
          Coda (solo)  2:21-2:30

Comments: This one's about as straight-forward as musical structure can be - no ambiguity here.
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