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{{a|record review|}}JC is no expert but he likes to twang on his guitar and he knows what he likes. This will be a series of deeply idiosyncratic investigations of unique songs — the type that stick in your head — to set up a story of ''why'' they stick in your head. Why are these | {{a|record review|}}JC is no expert but he likes to twang on his guitar and he knows what he likes. This will be a series of deeply idiosyncratic investigations of unique songs — the type that stick in your head — to set up a story of ''why'' they stick in your head. Why are these different? | ||
Along the way it will looking at the musical composition, instrumentation, technology, performance and recording techniques that made these songs unique. | Along the way, it will looking at the musical composition, instrumentation, technology, performance and recording techniques that made these songs unique. | ||
{{L1}} | {{L1}}'''The Sound of Music''': a primer: | ||
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'''Do re me''' | |||
{{L4}}'''Major scale''': ''Do re me'' is a tune set to the major scale, the main musical scale of Western music. <li> | |||
'''Why do re me'''? Eleventh-century Italian Guido of Arezzo invented a notational system after the first syllable of each line of the Latin “{{plainlink|https://open.spotify.com/track/1sXoq787SP50CH0ee5Zvxr?|Hymn to St. John the Baptist}}”, each of which started on a successive note of the major scale. A seventh tone, ''ti'' was added later. The eighth note of the “octave” is the first one repeated up one level (which, er, “brings us back to doh”.)</ol><li> | |||
'''Octaves and frequency''': To raise a note by an octave is double its frequency: at concert pitch, “middle A” (“A0”) is 440Hz. A1 is 880Hz, and so on. | |||
{{L3}}The reason notes sound in (or out of) tune is because of mathematical interactions of frequency. the major scale seven of 12 possible “semitones” that don’t sound out of tune, before you start again. <li> | |||
Western music takes ''seven'' of those notes, that: and the importance of ''do'', ''fa'' and ''la''. | |||
{{L3}}'''Intervals''': | |||
{{L4}} the importance of the Perfect Fifth: <li> | |||
The importance of One, Four, Five: I, IV, V: tonic, dominant and subdominant.<li> | |||
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'''Spaghetti Western punk disco at the end of the world: Blondie’s [[Atomic]]''' | '''Spaghetti Western punk disco at the end of the world: Blondie’s [[Atomic]]''' | ||
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