While
most Beatles songs are in 4/4 time, their songs in triple meter will be the
focus when pianist and Assistant Professor of Music Brian Felix offers a guided
listening session as the next installment the UNC Asheville Department of
Music’s new lecture series. The Beatles in 3: A Guided Listening Session will
take place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25 in UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky
Auditorium.
“Unlike
most of their contemporaries, the Beatles incorporated triple meter – 3/4, 6/8
and 12/8 into a relatively substantial number of their tunes. By looking at
this body of tunes we can gain insights into the band's compositional process,
musical output and place in 1960s musical culture,” said Felix, who has
directed UNC Asheville student ensembles performing Beatles music. The Beatles’
Strawberry Fields Forever, which incorporates meter changes, has also
provided a creative platform for Felix, who has rearranged, performed and recorded
the song for solo piano (https://soundcloud.com/felixbrian).
The
music lecture series at UNC Asheville will conclude for the fall semester at 7
p.m. on Nov. 22 when Christine Boone, UNC Asheville assistant professor of
music, presents Gendered Power Relationships in Mashups, a look
into how certain mashup tracks, placing men and women into surprising
“conversations,” exemplify complex and shifting gendered power relationships.
The
UNC Asheville music lecture series is free and open to everyone, with talks
taking place in Lipinsky Hall.
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