The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber SoulThe Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life--composition, performance, recording and reception histories--from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965. Richly authoritative interpretations from every available reliable musical document are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text will enable general readers and musicians as well as educated music theorists to learn new levels of beauty in the music of the Beatles. |
Contents
PREFACE | vii |
AND THE BAND BEGINS TO PLAY 19561960 | 19 |
Historical Narrative | 20 |
The First Compositions | 24 |
The Quarry Men with George Harrison | 35 |
The Liverpool Scene | 37 |
Bass and Drums | 41 |
Substance in the Music of the Beatles and Their Forebears | 48 |
Peter Gordon Other Friends | 218 |
Cant Buy Me Love You Cant Do That | 221 |
Film Soundtrack | 225 |
World Tour Additional LP and EP Tracks | 238 |
Final Recordings for the EP and LP | 240 |
US Tour and Fourth LP | 250 |
Beatles for Sale and Feel Fine Shes a Woman | 253 |
The Beatles Musical Growth in Their First Two Years with EMI | 269 |
Rhythmic Textural Instrumental and Vocal Articulation of Structure | 62 |
TWO | 81 |
The Beatles with Pete Best August 1960August 1962 | 82 |
Enter Brian Epstein | 102 |
The First EMI Recordings September 1962February 1963 | 119 |
Love Me Do PS I Love You and Please Please Me Ask Me Why | 122 |
Please Please Me | 142 |
Composers at Work FebruaryJuly 1963 | 159 |
Composing for the Epstein Stable | 166 |
She Loves You Ill Get You | 173 |
The Final TwoTrack Recordings July October 1963 | 180 |
With the Beatles | 182 |
INTERLUDE | 197 |
Initial Reception in America | 205 |
THREE | 211 |
The Beatles Conquer America JanuaryMay 1964 | 212 |
FOUR | 273 |
Pop Music in America | 275 |
A Second Feature Film | 280 |
The Spring of 1965 | 295 |
The Second Half of 1965 | 305 |
Rubber Soul and We Can Work It Out Day Tripper | 308 |
NovemberDecember 1965 | 335 |
POSTLUDE | 339 |
APPENDIX | 345 |
TABLE OF CHORD FUNCTIONS | 357 |
GLOSSARY OF TERMS | 363 |
NOTES | 367 |
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The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul Walter Everett No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
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