What was said about Beatles' music once upon a time
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Hello people! I wonder if John or Paul or Ringo or George could make out what the auther said. http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/12/27/the-times-what-songs-the-beatles-sang-by-william-mann/ «[?] the slow, sad song about 'This Boy', which features prominently in Beatle programmes, is expressively unusual for its lugubrious music, but harmonically it is one of their most intriguing, with its chains of pandiationic clusters, and the sentiment is acceptable because voiced cleanly and crisply. But harmonic interest is typical of their quicker songs, too, and 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). Those submediant switches from C major into A flat major, and to a lesser extent mediant ones (eg the octave ascent in the famous I Want To Hold Your Hand) are a trademark of Lennon-McCartney songs [?] ». William Mann «What Songs The Beatles Sang» 27 декабря 1963, «The Times» Hope Paul will see this message. Love
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Ah, yes, the famous Aeolian Cadence!
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Ponicka:
Hello people! I wonder if John or Paul or Ringo or George could make out what the auther said. http://www.beatlesbible.com/1963/12/27/the-times-what-songs-the-beatles-sang-by-william-mann/ «[?] the slow, sad song about 'This Boy', which features prominently in Beatle programmes, is expressively unusual for its lugubrious music, but harmonically it is one of their most intriguing, with its chains of pandiationic clusters, and the sentiment is acceptable because voiced cleanly and crisply. But harmonic interest is typical of their quicker songs, too, and 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). Those submediant switches from C major into A flat major, and to a lesser extent mediant ones (eg the octave ascent in the famous I Want To Hold Your Hand) are a trademark of Lennon-McCartney songs [?] ». William Mann «What Songs The Beatles Sang» 27 декабря 1963, «The Times» Hope Paul will see this message. Love
Oh don't worry. Paul's been bragging about it for decades! He still quotes from it from time to time.
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'"American writer (and 60's acid guru) Timothy Leary thought that the band were prototypes of "evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with mysterious powers to create a new human species"' As for the White Album: "'In a positive review for The Observer, Tony Palmer claimed that, "if there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert," the album "should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making"' Such was The Beatles power in the 60's. And here we are still talking about them. Anybody remember Schubert?
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beatlesfanrandy:
'"American writer (and 60's acid guru) Timothy Leary thought that the band were prototypes of "evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with mysterious powers to create a new human species"' As for the White Album: "'In a positive review for The Observer, Tony Palmer claimed that, "if there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert," the album "should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making"' Such was The Beatles power in the 60's. And here we are still talking about them. Anybody remember Schubert?
Yes, actually.
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I'm more familiar with Hubert and Hubert's Unfinished Symphony B-A-D-E-F-(F) The Beatles will outlive them all, when it's all said and done
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Ponicka:
William Mann «What Songs The Beatles Sang» 27 декабря 1963, «The Times»
The Moscow Times? Or was that Lennongrad?
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moptops:
beatlesfanrandy:
'"American writer (and 60's acid guru) Timothy Leary thought that the band were prototypes of "evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with mysterious powers to create a new human species"' As for the White Album: "'In a positive review for The Observer, Tony Palmer claimed that, "if there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert," the album "should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making"' Such was The Beatles power in the 60's. And here we are still talking about them. Anybody remember Schubert?
Yes, actually.
I couldn't whistle one of his tunes.
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beatlesfanrandy:
I couldn't whistle one of his tunes.
You know this one
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Lennon's famous response: "?To this day I don't have any idea what they are. They sound like exotic birds.?
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From 1967 Time's review of Pepper: Composer Ned Rorem described "She's Leaving Home" as equal to any song that Schubert ever wrote. Who's this Schubert guy that everyone's comparing John & Paul too? What band was he in?
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The best contemporary review of Beatle's music has to be The White Album. The full review was put on the Yellow Submarine album inner jacket released 2 months later....classic.
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I know Beethoven's famous 9th Symphony!
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Nancy R:
I know Beethoven's famous 9th Symphony!
Have you heard this version?
