[Finale] Re: OT: Alan Pollack's Beatles Page

2003-06-18 Thread Rodney Waterman
Re: Strawberry Fields Forever Take 1 etc. I must never write to the List early in the morning! Forget the word 'cassette' - I was thinking of some ancient prehistoric device! According to my Beatles Anthology (Disc 2) notes, 'Take 1' (voice and acoustic guitar only) was actually a pre-Take 1 de

Re: [Finale] Re: OT: Alan Pollack's Beatles Page

2003-06-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Jun 2003 at 6:56, Rodney Waterman wrote: > I get a little uneasy when scholars strip music to the bone and claim to > have pigeon-holed it. . . . I don't know of any scholars who do that kind of thing. Scholars look at the way music is put together for the same reason we look at the way

[Finale] Re: OT: Alan Pollack's Beatles Page

2003-06-17 Thread Rodney Waterman
I get a little uneasy when scholars strip music to the bone and claim to have pigeon-holed it. For me, its the same with all music. I used to get furious back in the old days at the music faculty (Melbourne) when my professor stripped Mozart down bar by bar, note by note, chord by chord and smu