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How Jonny Greenwood Uses Materiality, Clusters, and Aleatoricism in His Film Music
We break down a handful of composer Jonny Greenwood’s go-to techniques in examples from his scores to Phantom Thread and There Will Be Blood.
Billie Eilish’s “You Should See Me in a Crown” Is Microtonality Gone Pop
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On Voice Leading and Tresillo in Troye Sivan & Ariana Grande’s “Dance to This”
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Chartmania!! I Broke Down Every Song That Reached the Billboard Top 5 in 2017
Alright songwriters and song-guzzlers alike, strap on your boots for a knowledge voyage with more divergent…
5 Compositional Elements That Define the Music of Ennio Morricone
Ennio “Maestro” Morricone is a composer as revered in the hearts of generations of Americans…
Philip Tagg’s Everyday Tonality
This article originally appeared on The Ethan Hein Blog. I complain a lot on my…
Longing for Simpler Times? Why the ‘Good Old Days’ Ain’t So Simple This Time Around
Have you heard Macklemore and Kesha’s recent duet, “Good Old Days”? It’s got a main…
How Taylor Swift Turned Right Said Fred’s Body-Positive Hit Into a Revenge Fantasy
Here’s a music-theory analysis of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” and Right…
The Musical and Sociopolitical Evolution of Kanye’s Use of Soul Music Samples
Between the old-school sound of his debut album, College Dropout, in 2004 and the ultra-synthesized feel…