Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concept discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains the songs that take centre stage and that are given priority. Because these songs seemed to respond better to their methods of analysis, which focused on their 'artfulness', most of the early analyses deal with songs by the Beatles or British progressive rock from the 1960s or 1970s. Usually, the results of group work vary considerably from results each member of the group would have achieved alone. Schenkerian voice-leading charts that are a common tool in North American music theory but much less so in Europe, Australia and Latin America, were being used to demonstrate harmonic/melodic relationships. The problems of the musicological community engaged in analytical activities can not only be found, but can be solved in miniature.