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by decklin 5120 days ago
If you're interested in learning music theory (as I am currently) and how the the Beatles' music evolved, this series of articles by Alan W. Pollack is fantastic:

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-notes_...

They were originally Usenet postings(!) starting in 1989 or thereabouts, but have been revised a bit. Warning: you could lose hours reading through them all.

One thing that comes up many times there that I'd be interested in seeing added to a quantitative analysis like this one is how many times something can "seem" like it might be in one key but ends up really being in another, but I don't know how you would count that.

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Wow, I just read through a couple of those and they look fantastic. I'll bookmark that and read it sometime later.