Creative Paper: You are required to write a creative, well-developed paper of at least 5 pages in length (this does not include any optional title or reference pages), focusing on the analysis of the words and music of 3 Beatle songs, ideally from different periods in the group’s stylistic development. You will likewise consider the interaction of words and music, concentrating on how a song’s message is conveyed by different musical techniques.
Here are some suggested resources for your paper, and also for further reading:
• Beatles, The Beatles Anthology (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000).
• Hunter Davies, The Beatles, 2d ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1985).
• William J. Dowlding, Beatlesongs, (New York: Fireside, 1989).
• Walter Everett, The Beatles as Musicians, 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 2001).
• Walter Everett, The Foundations of Rock: From Blue Suede Shoes to Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
• Tetsuya Fujita et al, The Beatles: Complete Scores (London: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation and Wise Publications, 1993).
• Mark Hertsgaard, A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (New York: Delta, 1995).
• Mark Lewisohn, The Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes, 1962- 1970 (New York: Harmony Books, 1988).
• Μark Lewisohn, Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, vol. 1 (New York: Crown Archetype, 2013). • Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2007).
• George Martin with William Pearson, With a Little Help from My Friends: The Making of Sgt. Pepper (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994).
• Wilfrid Mellers, Twilight of the Gods: The Music of the Beatles (New York: The Viking Press, 1973).
• Barry Miles, Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997).
• Allan F. Moore, The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
• Dominic Pedler, The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles (London: Ominibus Press, 2003).
• Tim Riley, Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album By Album, Song By Song, The Sixties And After (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002).
• John Robertson, The Art and Music of John Lennon (New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1991).
• Robert Rodriguez, Revolver: How the Beatles Reimagined Rock’n’Roll (Milwaukee: Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard, 2012).
• J. P. Russell, The Beatles on Record (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982).
• Bob Spitz, The Beatles: The Biography (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005).
• Jann S. Wenner, Lennon Remembers (The Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970), new ed. (London and New York: Verso, 2000).

Creative Paper: You are required to write a creative, well-develope...