Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Website; List of Text's Figures,
Tables, and Photographs
1: Drums, Other Percussion, and a Bit About Rhythm
2: Guitars, the Bass, and an Introduction to Harmony
n3: Keyboards and a Summary of Early-Rock
5: Vocal Color, Technique, and Arrangement
6: Forms: Phrases and Sections
7: Melody: Materials and Patterns
8: Chord Construction
9: Diatonic Harmonic Function
10: Harmony in Minor and Other Non-Major Modes
11: Chromatic Harmony
12: Musical Time: Rhythm, Meter and Tempo
13: Engineering the Master
14: Creating an Interpretation
Appendix: Lexicon of Chord Symbols; Further Print Resources In
Pop-Rock Music Of The 1950s-'60s
Index of Artists, Composers, Song and Album Titles
Index of Materials and Techniques
Walter Everett is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music Theory at The University of Michigan. He is author of The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (OUP, 1999) and The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (OUP, 2001).
"A wide-ranging presentation of rock's fundamental elements
compiled lovingly by a committed scholar with deep knowledge of the
repertory." --Journal of the Society for American Music
"One to find space for in the curriculum, since it provides the
basis for systematic work on popular music before and after its
stated period." --Music Analysis
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