MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Beach Boys, Parallel Motion, 4 The People
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Harmonic extensions (the four freshmen: our love is here to stay) Would edge up looking like terraces up, then falls, up, then falls. Oblique motion: one note stays stationary the other goes up. Similar motion: both notes going up the scale. Parallel motion: both notes going up at the same rate. Contrary motion: one note going up and one note going down. First recorded by cleveland simmons (jamaican folk song) recorded in. Sloop john b beach boys (brian wilson, arranger) from pet sounds (1966) Part of the folk revival movement (bob dylan was also part of it) Strophic tune pattern, no form variation, no melody variation. Brian wilson would make each verse a different composition in and of itself. Would also bring in different instruments that wouldn"t normally go together, and layers them in. Will be sending out a map of the folk revival back to turn of the 20th century. Hootanany: informal get-together; beginning of the modern-day music festivals.
