The apposition of opposites is ubiquitous in music and an accomplished composer can use opposition in order to create something of interest and fascination for the listener's ear.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlQ7B1hSsfc
As I post this video, tomorrow will be Christmas Day, and so ends the Twelve Days Before Christmas series. However...we ???? need a New Years Eve song, and I just may have one coming next week, with a special guest vocalist.
"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called Les Anges dans nos campagnes, with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child.
The mid-Sixties pop song, "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" by Spanky and our Gang directly makes use of the chord progression and melody of this song. It's not unusual for this to happen in a song from that era, although it was more common in the early Sixties. The song, "A Lover's Concerto" performed by the Toys used the melody of the familiar "Minuet in G major" from J.S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, for example.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGmRd7tRcMI
At last! The first official Beatles analysis featuring James Corbett, fellow Beatles fanatic and podcaster extraordinaire. The plan is to do one Beatles song per album chronologically. Or if my followers would prefer, we can do more cuts from this record before moving on. Most likely, if there's no preference or no response one way or the other, we'll probably just move on to the next record and pick a song from that.
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