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Collection of Formal Analyses

Make You Feel My Love (as sung by Adele)

Manhattan (Sarah Bareilles)

Someone Who Loves Me (Sarah Bareilles)

Motion Sickness (Phoebe Bridgers)

Kyoto (Phoebe Bridgers)

The Logical Song (Supertramp)

Bridge Over Troubled Water (Jacob Collier)

Make Me Cry (Jacob Collier)

These Walls (Dua Lipa)

Excerpts from songs my students like, organized

by topic:

1) Harmonic Sequences

Save Me (Avenged Sevenfold)

Forget Me Not (Laufey)

Hocus Pocus (Focus)

Hotel California (The Eagles)

Radio (Lana Del Rey)

2) Sentence Structure

Space and Time (Chance the Rapper)

Focus (Ariana Grande)

3) AABA and Verse-Chorus Forms with a Bridge

Misty (Laufey)

I'm with You (Avril Lavigne)

Will I See You Again (Three Sacred Souls)

FXMLDR (Thank You Scientist)

4) Verse-Chorus Forms with No Bridge

From the Start (Laufey)

Forget Me Not (Laufey)

Late Night Talking (Harry Styles)

Summertime (The Sundays)

Zombie (The Cranberries)

Glory of the Snow (Clairo)

The Place Where He Inserted The Blade (Black Country, New Road)

Fired (Ben Folds)

Run Away to Mars (Talk)

A Life Where We Work Out (Flatland Cavalry)

I Got Love (Bobby Oroza)

Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)

Earth Song (Michael Jackson)

Chiquitita (ABBA)

5) One-Part Forms

Truth (21 Pilots)

Fourth of July (Sufjan Stevens)

NEIKI (Masayoshi Takanaka)

Sea of Simulation (Daft Punk)

6) Blues and Its Influence

Surfin' USA (The Beach Boys)

7) Canon

Goodbye Yesterday (Elevation Rhythm & Gracie Binion)

8) Chromatic Mediants

Reason (PinkPantheress)

Black (Pearl Jam)

Folklore (Vincent Herring)

9) Pentatonic Melodies

Ponta di Areia (Wayne Shorter)

Ultimately (Khai Dreams)

10) Using Meter or Tempo Changes to Articulate Form

L's Bop (Keeny Barron)

Lego Ring (Fayewebster & Lil Yachty)

All I Need (Radiohead)

 

 

 

 

© 2017 by Matthew Santa.

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