Music Analogy

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“The final years of the 1970’s saw the emergence of a new style of pop music that would continue in popularity into the early 1980’s. This music was known, by its fans at that time, as New Wave”
(http://www.erols.com/alloyd/adam2.htm). “New Wave” had a particular style that utilized the synthesizer as a main instrument. The synthesizer was a machine that electronically produced music. It gave a certain artificial and metallic feel to the music. The Cure and Erasure, bands formed during that period of time, were some of the bands that implemented the synthesizer into their music. Though both bands fit into the category of “New Wave” the feel of their music is somewhat different. To explain the difference
I would have to analyze their songs. Two examples of their music that I will analyze are “Friday I’m in Love” by The
Cure and “Always” by Erasure. The song “Friday I’m in
Love” by The Cure had a 4/4 meter. The song began with a pickup by the guitar and led into a backbeat by the drums. The synthesizer played a continuous riff providing the “tinging” artificial sound and there’s also bass in the background. There were also sounds towards the end of the song that sounded a lot like the “theramin.” The beat subdivisions seemed to be triplets because the song seemed to swing and the other subdivisions didn’t match.
The correct sequence and lengths of the sections in this particular song can be best labeled as I8+8 A8 B8 C6 B8
Solo8 B8 C6 D8+8 A8 B8 Solo8 Solo8. The labels A and
B are to distinguish the two different verses, the label C stands for the chorus and the label D symbolized the new section (the bridge). The vocals within this song have a deeper and a more wailing kind of voice than that of the band Erasure. The song “Always” from Erasure also had a
4/4 meter, but unlike The Cure the song did not start out with a pickup and instead of the guitar the song began with the synthesizer. There didn’t seem to be any other distinguishable instruments besides the synthesizer and the drum, though I did seem to hear the use of the theramin for the eerie effect. There were also these clicking sounds, but
I’m assuming the synthesizer made it. The groove of this song was more harmonized and brings to mind the music of the early Beatles. The subdivisions of this song were 8th notes. The sequence and lengths of the sections for this song can be labeled as I8 V8+8 C8+4 V8+8 C8+4
CFADE. The label V symbolizes the verse of the song and

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