On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 08:30 AM, David H. Bailey wrote:
Very interesting! I happened to see what he had to say about "You Know My Name, Look Up The Number" and I wonder what any of the Beatles themselves would think of his analysis -- I know that it certainly was way more involved than I ever considered when I heard the song. But in typical musicologist manner, he does find some interesting links that I wonder whether the Beatles had in mind when they recorded the song.
Hey, David, let's not insult the musicologists! This is music theorist mumbo-jumbo, and we let them do it because it keeps them happy and off the streets!
A musicologist would be much more interested in the Beatles' influence on their culture and vice versa, and there's probably a dissertation waiting to be written on the unexpected longevity of their work and the question of quality that implies. Musicologists tend to be interested in music as it fits into its particular culture, theorists in music as isolated artifacts. And yes, both kinds of scholar tend to find things in music that the composers might not have thought about at all, but they're still there. You can easily create structures that have all kinds of inner and outer relationships even if you don't know the terminology to name them. Country songwriters do it all the time.
John
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