Collection of Formal Analyses
Make You Feel My Love (as sung by Adele)
Someone Who Loves Me (Sarah Bareilles)
Motion Sickness (Phoebe Bridgers)
Kyoto (Phoebe Bridgers)
The Logical Song (Supertramp)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (Jacob Collier)
Excerpts from songs my students like, organized
by topic:
1) Harmonic Sequences
Sin Sentimientos (Grupo Niche)
Signs of the Judgment (Mark Butler)
Save Me (Avenged Sevenfold)
Forget Me Not (Laufey)
Hocus Pocus (Focus)
Hotel California (The Eagles)
Radio (Lana Del Rey)
2) The Sentence
Space and Time (Chance the Rapper)
Focus (Ariana Grande)
3) The Parallel Period
A Simple Song (Chris Stapleton)
4) AABA and Verse-Chorus Forms with a Bridge
Paris, Texas (Lana Del Rey)
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (Larry Young)
Misty (Laufey)
I'm with You (Avril Lavigne)
Will I See You Again (Three Sacred Souls)
5) Verse-Chorus Forms with No Bridge
That's the Way of the World (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Orgasm of Death (The Growlers)
Communication (The Cardigans)
Yoru No Pierrot (Ado)
The End (Jutes)
I Just Might (Bruno Mars)
Rosanna (Toto)
Those Years Are Over (The Sha La Das)
Happy Little Town (Gnomes of Valor)
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)
6) One-Part Forms
Truth (21 Pilots)
Fourth of July (Sufjan Stevens)
Sea of Simulation (Daft Punk)
Until Dawn (Arnor Chu)
7) Continuous Variations
Don't Worry, Be Happy (Bobby McFerrin)
Again and Again (Jagged Jaw and Minova)
8) Canon (the section starting at 2:01 is transformed into a canon at 2:25)
Goodbye Yesterday (Elevation Rhythm & Gracie Binion)
9) Chromatic Mediants
The Planets, IV. Jupiter (Holst)
Exogenesis: Symphony, Pt. 1 (Muse)
Reason (PinkPantheress)
Black (Pearl Jam)
Folklore (Vincent Herring)
10) Using Meter or Tempo Changes to Articulate Form
L's Bop (Keeny Barron)
Lego Ring (Fayewebster & Lil Yachty)
All I Need (Radiohead)
11) Using Timbre to Articulate Form
Gifted Every Strength (Loathe)