Word: melodye
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Anyone could write these toss-aways. But only McCartney was writing Yesterday, an instant-classic melody that boasted an unusual seven-bar chorus and producer George Martin's string-quartet underscoring. Anthology 2 has two archival gems: the song's first studio take, with Paul calling out chords to the...
But the work also manifests those qualities which make so much post-war music difficult for the untrained ear: irregular tempo, unresolved chords and absence of melody. These qualities were less in evidence in the sonata than in the String Quartet #1, a work which even the composer describes as...
As Riff, Tony's best friend and the leader of the Jets. Dusty Thomson is charming. In "Cool," he handles the tricky melody and the non-sense syllables with real grace redeeming what is perhaps the musical's closest approach to absurdity. Tracy Pizzo swaggers nicely as Anybody's, the...
But there were also times in the performance, especially during Redman's solos, when the level of intensity on stage fell way short of the standard set by the energetic Sanders audience. The majority of the first set performed by the quartet consisted of uninspired jams on simple, repetitive tunes...
This post-creativity view dominates nearly everything: film; music (from rap, with its "samples," to modern "serious" music--now lacking melody, harmony and any recognizable patterns, each composer racing to "create" a new sound before everything possible was exhausted); poetry (stripped of all structure now for the same reason); literature...