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Alan W. Pollack's Notes on Beatles tunes After I had listed a small number of tunes by The Beatles, I discovered that there were marvelous musical commentaries available on the net for nearly every one of their songs. The commentaries had originally been written for the rec.music.beatles Usenet newsgroup by Allan W. Pollack throughout the late 1980s and the 90s. I went into my Beatles pages and created links to point to the proper commentary for each tune, on the theory that it would be fun to listen to the tune's changes while Pollack explained how the harmony of the tune works. He is a very vivid writer and can give you interesting ideas how songwriters and composers think about harmony. Apparently the folks who first hosted the pages couldn't keep the site alive, causing my links to go dead. Patrick French pointed out the link decay this morning prompting me to find a site in the Netherlands that is hosting them now. I've gone through the complete Beatles list on SongTrellis to update the broken links and to add commentary links to those that were missing them. I currently have 17 of the Fab Four's tune listed. If would like to see the commentaries for the other 170 I haven't gotten around to yet, you can find them very easily with a Google search. When typing your search text, simply type the title of the Beatles tune and add the phrase "Notes On" in front of it. In almost all cases the Pollack commentary for the tune will be the first or second link listed in the search results. Interval name explanation at The Cipher It's very thrilling to discover someone who can explain a very complicated topic in a very simple way. Roger Blumberg on his website The Cipher, which is dedicated to teaching folks a simple method to explore music using a guitar, has written a wonderful explanation of how to decode the names that are commonly used to describe musical intervals. This whole interval nomenclature has gotten very confusing over the centuries. Roger makes it very simple to understand and proposes an alternative that makes much more musical sense than the conventions which have been used historically. The mathematician Paul Erdˆs said that a mathematical proof belonged in "The Book" if in his opinion a problem was solved as elegantly as if God himself had done it and recorded it in his own book of proofs. This interval explanation belongs in "The Book" of musical explanations. There are responses to this message:
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