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Music & Txt 2Some points about popular music & lyrics

Which was the most widely practiced secular genre during the Renaissance?

•1) Lieder

•2) Madrigals

When a composer sets all of the stanzas to the same

music, it is called

•1) Through-composed

•2) Strophic

Which best describes text depiction?

•1) the music reflects the overall mood of the text

•2) certain words or phrases are illustrated by their musical analogue

A few topics...

•Who is being addressed?

•Wit and wordplay

•Ballads / Story Songs

•Disjunct, opaque lyrics

•Same words, different song

•Interior / Exterior

Get up offa that thing, and dance 'till you feel better,

Get up offa that thing, and dance 'till you, sing it now!

Get up offa that thing, and dance 'till you feel better,

Get up offa that thing, and try to release that pressure!

James Brown, “Get up offa that thing”

Love of mine some day you will dieBut I'll be close behindI'll follow you into the darkNo blinding light or tunnels to gates of whiteJust our hands clasped so tightWaiting for the hint of a spark

[Chorus]If Heaven and Hell decideThat they both are satisfiedIlluminate the NOs on their vacancy signsIf there's no one beside youWhen your soul embarksThen I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman ruleI got my knuckles bruised by a lady in blackAnd I held my tongue as she told me"Son fear is the heart of love"So I never went back[Chorus]You and me have seen everything to seeFrom Bangkok to CalgaryAnd the soles of your shoes are all worn downThe time for sleep is nowIt's nothing to cry about'cause we'll hold each other soonIn the blackest of rooms[Chorus]

Death Cab for Cutie, “I Will Follow You Into the Dark”

To whom is “I will follow you into the dark”

addressed?

•1) all of us

•2) an individual, but not you or me

Wit and wordplay

Tin Pan Alley

Cole Porter, “Let’s Do It,” from Paris (1928)

When the little bluebird Who has never said a word

Starts to sing SpringWhen the little bluebell

At the bottom of the dell Starts to ring Ding dong Ding dong

When the little blue clerk In the middle of his work

Starts a tune to the moon up above It is nature that is all

Simply telling us to fall in love

And that's why birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's do it, let's fall in love

Cold Cape Cod clams, 'gainst their wish, do it Even lazy jellyfish do it

Let's do it, let's fall in love

I've heard that lizards and frogs do it Layin' on a rock

They say that roosters do it With a doodle and cock

Some Argentines, without means do it I hear even Boston beans do it Let's do it, let's fall in love

When the little bluebird Who has never said a word

starts to sing Spring spring spring When the little bluebell

At the bottom of the dell Starts to ring Ding ding ding

When the little blue clerk In the middle of his work

Starts a tune

The most refined lady bugs do it When a gentleman calls

Moths in your rugs they do it What's the use of moth balls

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it


I'm sure sometimes on the sly you do it Maybe even you and I might do it


Country & Western

•Loretta Lynn, “She’s Got You”

•George Jones, “The Right Left Hand”

•1) “Right Left Hand”

•2) “Let’s Do It”

•3) “She’s Got You”

Which of these three texts does not rely

upon double meanings of words?

Ballads / Story Songs

Up in the mornin' and out to schoolThe teacher is teachin' the Golden Rule

American history and practical mathYou studyin' hard and hopin' to pass

Workin' your fingers right down to the boneAnd the guy behind you won't leave you alone

Ring, ring goes the bellThe cook in the lunch room's ready to sell

You're lucky if you can find a seatYou're fortunate if you have time to eatBack in the classroom, open your books

Keep up the teacher don't know how mean she looks

Chuck Berry, “School Day” (1957)

Soon as three o'clock rolls aroundYou finally lay your burden down

Close up your books, get out of your seatDown the halls and into the street

Up to the corner and 'round the bendRight to the juke joint, you go in

Drop the coin right into the slotYou're gotta hear somethin' that's really hot

With the one you love, you're makin' romanceAll day long you been wantin' to dance,

Feeling the music from head to toeRound and round and round we go

Hail, hail rock and rollDeliver me from the days of old

Long live rock and rollThe beat of the drums, loud and bold

Rock, rock, rock and rollThe feelin' is there, body and soul

Disjunct / Opaque lyrics

In other words, “huh?”

R.E.M., “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight”

This here is the place I will be staying.There isn't a number. You can call the pay phone.

Let it ring a long, long, long, long time.If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more.If I don't pick up, pick up... The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps,

sleeps in a coil

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.

There are scratches all around the coin slotLike a heartbeat, baby trying to wake up,But this machine can only swallow money.You can't lay a patch by computer design.

It's just a lot of stupid, stupid signs.

Tell her she can kiss my a--, then laugh and say that you were only kidding.

That way she'll know that it's really, really, really, really me.


Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me.Today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial.

A can of beans or blackeyed peas, some Nescafe and ice,A candy bar, a falling star, or a reading of Doctor Seuss;


The cat in the hat came back, wrecked a lot of havoc on the way,Always had a smile and a reason to pretend.

But their world has flat backgrounds and little need to sleep but to dream.The sidewinder sleeps on his back.

Call me when you try to wake her up. Call me when you try to wake her.I can always sleep standing up. Call me when you try to wake her.

We've got to moogie, moogie, move on this one.

•Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”

•http://youtu.be/d_ujAXxNxU0

Same words, different song?

Can two different songs have the same words?

•1) Yes

•2) No

Katy Perry, “I Kissed a Girl” (2008)This was never the way I planned, not my intention.

I got so brave, drink in hand, lost my discretionIt's not what I'm used to, just wanna try you on.

I'm curious for you, caught my attention.

[Chorus:]I kissed a girl and I liked it,

the taste of her cherry chapstick.I kissed a girl just to try it,

I hope my boyfriend don't mind it.It felt so wrong,it felt so right.

Don't mean I'm in love tonight.I kissed a girl and I liked it (I liked it).

No, I don't even know your name, it doesn't matter.You're my experimental game, just human nature.It's not what good girls do, not how they should behave.My head gets so confused, hard to obey.[Chorus]Us girls we are so magical,Soft skin, red lips, so kissable.Hard to resist, so touchable.Too good

to deny it.Ain't no big deal, it's innocent.[Chorus]

•http://youtu.be/3JXYfJKRznA

•1) the gender switch

•2) the slow tempo

•3) something else

Which is the most important factor in the reinterpretation of the song as performed in

the youtube clip?

Interior / Exterior

Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance”Caught in a bad romance

Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!Roma-roma-mamaa!

Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!Want your bad romance

I want your ugly, I want your diseaseI want your everything, As long as it's free

I want your love (Love-love-love I want your love)

I want your drama, The touch of your handI want your leather-studded kiss in the sand

I want your love, Love-love-love

You know that I want youAnd you know that I need you

I want it bad, your bad romance

[Chorus:]I want your love and I want your revengeYou and me could write a bad romance

I want your love and all your lovers' revengeYou and me could write a bad romance

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!Caught in a bad romance



I want your horror, I want your design‘Cause you're a criminalAs long as you're mine

I want your love(Love-love-love I want your love-uuhh)

I want your psycho, your vertical stickWant you in my rear window

Baby you're sickI want your loveLove-love-love

I want your love(Love-love-love I want your love)

You know that I want you('Cause I'm a free bit-- baby!)And you know that I need you

I want it bad, bad romance

Chorus

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!Caught in a bad romance



Walk, walk fashion babyWork it, move that bit-- crazy

Walk, walk passion babyWork it, I'm a free bit--, baby

I want your love and I want your revengeI want your love, I don't wanna be friendsJe veux ton amour et je veux ta revancheJ'veux ton amour, I don't wanna be friends

Want your bad romance(Caught in a bad romance)

Chorus & Outtro

Entertainment & Humor

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