MU106 Great Composers

Sixties British Songwriters

Schedule: Class 1

Introduction

• Requirements, grading, etc.
• Postwar Britain: war debt, infrastructure, teenagers, and the Establishment
• The British Song Tradition: Child ballads, broadside ballads, & music hall
• Musical vocabulary and approach: describing a song (song <> performance)

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Describing What We Hear 

• The Song-Recording
• Song Form
• Song-Recording Process Time Line: Early and Mid-Sixties British Pop