HMU111H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mbira, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Asian Underground
16 Oct 2011
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Happiness is a warm gun : the beatles, 1968. Sexual connotations like bang, shoot, discharge a load. More like 3 songs put into one, because even the time signature changes. Part 1: static opening, melody & harmony, two iv i shifts. Metric changes: 4/4 to 6/4 to 4/4 to 5/4. Part 2: radical shift in style (acid rock-blues?) Changes of meter: 9/8, 12/8, 9/8, 10/8 . Part 3: stability after daring harmonies and adventurous metric shifts c am f g. Common time with shift to 12/8 for an almost waltz like feel. Range of creative sources and musical styles, levels of complexity. Song pieces together fragments dealing with lennon s obsessions, experiences, and lyrics from a variety of sources. Lennon was extremely depressed, his father left when he was two, mother died when he was 17, raised my a strict aunt, best friend died of brain hemorrhage, got girlfriend pregnant and married, but very unhappy relationship.
