Here, There and Everywhere - The Beatles

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Performance forces & their handling

- Reducded instrumentation (e.g inaudible drums)

- Guitar plays spread chords at beginning, and acts as simple accompaniment

- Vocal lines in the style of american 'barbershop' singing

- Lead vocal has high tessitura

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Structure

- 3 bar intro - unusual??

- Altered AABA structure (the last B and A are repeated)

- Short outro

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Tonality

- A sections = G major (with short modulations to the relative minor)

- B sections = B flat major (remote key)

- Chromatic slip 

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Harmony

- 4 chord progressions

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Melody

- Use of falsetto voice - indicates high tessitura

- Frequent triadic shapes

- Mixture of conjunct and disjunct 

- Appogiaturas (Bar 22)  and suspensions

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Tempo, Metre and Rhythm

- Slow ballad

- 4/4 metre

- Gentle syncopations reflect the natural rhythms of speech 

- Guitar accompaniment emphasises 2nd and 4th beat of the bar

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