Analytic approaches to Popular Music

 

 

Required Readings

 

Allan F. Moore, Introduction and Chapter 8. In Song Means: Analyzing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song (Farnham: Routledge, 2012), 1–7; 215–58.

 

Moore playlist

 

Nicole Biamonte, “Rhythmic Functions in Pop Rock Music.” In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches, Edited by Ciro Scotto, Kenneth Smith, and John Brackett (Farnham: Routledge, 2019), 190–206.

 

Biamonte Playlist

 

Two harmonic analyses of Beck's "Lonesome Tears" by Walter Everett and Guy Capuzzo.

 

Beck's "Lonesome Tears"

 

 

Suggested Readings

 

John Covach, “Form in Rock Music: A Primer.” In Engaging Music: Essays in Music Analysis, ed. Deborah Stein (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 65–76.

 

Walter Everett, "Making Sense of Rock’s Tonal Systems.” Music Theory Online10/4 (2004)

 

Guy Capuzzo, "Neo-Riemannian Theory and the Analysis of Pop-Rock Music." Music Theory Spectrum, 26/ii (2004), pp. 177–199.

 

Christopher Doll, "Some Practical Issues in the Aesthetic Analysis of Popular Music." In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis, 3–14.

 

Phil Ford, "Style as Analysis." In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis, 15–29.

 

Simon Zagorski-Thomas, ""Analysing the Product of Recorded Musical Activity." In The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis, 117–32.