MUFHL 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Love Me Do, Duple And Quadruple Metre, The Early Beatles
17 May 2020
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32-bar song form: a bar (or measure) is one unit of the meter. In duple meter w/ 4 beats, one bar=4: two sections of music, one which repeats and one which doesn"t: aaba, the a section is called the verse and the b section is called the bridge or beats. Middle 8 : four sections x8 bars per section= 32 bars. Love me do (1962)- 32-bar song form: simple versus (paul wrote them when he was 16, john wrote the bridge for this song later, this collaborative song writing was how the beatles typically wrote their music. 1962-1970: 12 studio albums, 12 eps, 22 singles 217 songs in the uk. 1963-1970: 13 albums on capital, 5 albums on apple=18 albums. 2014 remastered capitol albums, both stereo and mono. 1962: initial success: summer of "62: signed with parlaphone. Live performances in liverpool and out of town. 62 engagements in june and july: ringo joined in august.
