MU121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Twelve-String Guitar, Sitar
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Beatles songs at start of career all very similar. Beatles grow into move musically ambitious pop group of the decade. As career goes on, they spend longer time in studio recording. Hard day"s night starts with dissonant chord not heard in pop. Starts to stray from tpa but format still similar. When mccartney sings about past, is drifting back to memory, music shows this with ascending melody line. Seeks out ravi shankar, most famous sitar player in world. Inspired bob dylan to pick up a guitar. George harrison hired bollywood artists to play on records. Composes entire piece beatles don"t even play on. In a way brings classical music into pop music. John lennon and paul mccartney tend to write together. Because of beatles, people begin to see rock and roll as a serious genre. Rock and roll becomes less of a joke and more musically intricate. Music traditionally charted as 3 distinct entities (pop, r&b, country)
