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A 4 pages research paper that offers an analysis of the Lennon/McCartney song "For No One" from the Beatles' Revolver album. The writer discusses the structure, harmony, and rhythm of the song, as well as its poignant lyrics and also addresses the contributions of the Beatles to music. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Ringo Starr (Hauser, 2003). Knoll (1995) credits the Beatles music as constituting a musical "breakthrough" comparable to that of either Bach or Mozart in their own eras. While this evaluation
may strike many people as somewhat extreme, it is true that the music of the Beatles continues, after 40 years, to be extremely popular, influencing successive generations of young musicians,
as well as listeners. One of the early achievements of the band was the album entitled Revolver, which explored new musical territory, lyrical subjects and styles of composition
(Erlewine, 2004). One of the songs on this album, "For No One" (Lennon/McCartney), is a haunting elegy for a sadly ending romance -- "a love that should have lasted years"
(Stout, 2002). While the majority of the songs on Revolver can be construed as marking the beginnings of the Beatles journey toward increasing psychodelic music, "For No One" differs
from this assessment, as it is a sophisticated distillation of the music of an earlier era (Lockeretz, 2003). In this song, non-diatonic chords are placed precisely within a straightforward pop
progression, which marches in a stately fashion underneath an intimate melody (Lockeretz, 2003). As a general rule, Lennon and McCartney composed all of the Beatles music and they are listed
as the composers of this song. This writer/tutor could find no references on the extent to which each composer contributed to this song. During his life, John Lennon was quite
modest regarding his contributions to the songwriting team. He said that his role was to add some feeling of the "blues" to McCartneys natural melodies (Rontondi and Obrecht, 19940. However,
the details of Lennons life come closer to matching the situation related in the song. Lennon was divorced before marrying his second wife, Yoko Ono, while McCartney remained married to
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