The Beatles As Musicians The Quarry Men

The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul is a comprehensive, chronologically-ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life--composition, performance, recording and reception histories--from its beginnings in 1956 through 1965. Richly authoritativeinterpretations from every available reliable musical document are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, video, print, and multimedia sources. The text will enable general readers and musicians as well as educated music theorists to learn new levels of beauty in themusic of the Beatles.

Walter Everett is Associate Professor of Music in Music Theory at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (OUP, 1999).

Maps: Europe

2

(1)

Britain

3

(1)

Liverpool

4

(2)

London

6

(2)

America

8

(1)

Asia and Oceania

9

(2)

Prelude Thinking of Linking

11

(8)

And the Band Begins to Play (1956-1960)

19

(62)

Historical Narrative

20

(1)

Musical Beginnings: The Quarry Men

20

(4)

The First Compositions by Lennon and McCartney

24

(11)

The Quarry Men with George Harrison

35

(2)

British Revolutionaries: The Liverpool Scene

37

(4)

Bass and Drums

41

(7)

Substance in the Music of the Beatles and Their Forebears

48

(1)

Formal, Harmonic, and Melodic Characteristics

48

(14)

Rhythmic, Textural, Instrumental, and Vocal Articulation of Structure

62

(19)

Someone to Love, Somebody New (1960-1963)

81

(130)

The Beatles with Pete Best

82

(1)

Apprenticeship in Hamburg

82

(20)

Enter Brian Epstein

102

(17)

The First EMI Recordings

119

(1)

New Drummer Ringo Starr

119

(3)

Introductory Singles: ``Love Me Do'' / ``P.S. I Love You'' and ``Please Please Me'' / ``Ask Me Why''

122

(20)

The First LP: Please Please Me

142

(17)

Composers at Work

159

(1)

Spring 1963---The Third Single

159

(7)

Composing for the Epstein Stable

166

(7)

The Fourth Single: ``She Loves You'' / ``I'll Get You''

173

(7)

The Final Two-Track Recordings

180

(1)

Beatlemania: The Second Half of 1963

180

(2)

The Second LP: With the Beatles

182

(23)

Interlude I Want to Hold Your Hand

197

(8)

Initial Reception in America

205

(6)

I'm Not What I Appear to Be (1964)

211

(62)

The Beatles Conquer America

212

(1)

History through May 1964

212

(6)

Peter & Gordon; Other Friends

218

(3)

``Can't Buy Me Love'' / ``You Can't Do That''

221

(4)

A Hard Day's Night: Film Soundtrack

225

(13)

June-July 1964: World Tour, Additional LP and EP Tracks

238

(1)

The Australian Tour and Surrounding Events

238

(2)

Final Recordings for the EP and LP

240

(10)

Late 1964: U.S. Tour and Fourth LP

250

(1)

Events of August-December 1964

250

(3)

Beatles for Sale and ``I Feel Fine'' / ``She's a Woman''

253

(16)

The Beatles' Musical Growth in Their First Two Years with EMI

269

(4)

I'm Here to Show Everybody the Light (1965)

273

(72)

Popular Music, 1964-1966

273

(1)

British Beat Music

273

(2)

Pop Music in America

275

(5)

A Second Feature Film

280

(1)

Help!: Recordings for the Film

280

(15)

The Spring of 1965

295

(10)

The Second Half of 1965

305

(1)

Summer Tours

305

(3)

Rubber Soul and ``We Can Work It Out'' / ``Day Tripper''

308

(27)

November-December 1965

335

(10)

Postlude The Act You've Known for All These Years (1957-2000)

339

(6)

Appendix Instruments Played by the Early-Period Beatles

345

(12)

Table of Chord Functions

357

(6)

Glossary of Terms

363

(4)

Notes

367

(46)

References

413

(20)

Index of Names, Songs, Albums, Videos, and Artworks

433

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The Beatles As Musicians The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul

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