An in depth musical comparison can be found here
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was too complicated. One of the best of Irving Berlin’s Nine Rules For Writing Popular Songs is the eighth
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the characteristics of the songs that attract the most votes, and Bennett has already published some preliminary results on his website. Some interesting experiments have also been done in the U...
three would get the equal split but Stock and Aitken did all the song writing and producing, while Waterman did not write music or lyrics instead he acted as a publicist
starts. Here’s the full archive 2011-2019 (spoiler – I only managed a home run in 2015, with all the top 3 correct, in the right order). My approach (in all musicology) has always been
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was too complicated. One of the best or Irving Berlin’s Nine Rules For Writing Popular Songs is the eighth
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to wrap itself around your listeners’ heads. First, let’s deconstruct melody into two types: scalic and intervallic. Scalic here means ‘note-adjacent’, as in the notes sung on the scale ...
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words, one conceptually-dissonant phrase: “meaty vowels”. Professor Joe Bennett, PhD of the Berklee School of Music would have to agree, as he argues that open vowels like ‘o’, ‘u’, ...
Boston’s Berklee College of Music analysed the elements of the ultimate Christmas song in research commissioned by British shopping centre chain
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Harrison’s case resurfaced almost four decades in 2014. The family of the late Marvin Gaye filed a suit against Robin Thicke, alleging that the latter’s “Blurred Lines” copied the “fee...
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