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	<title>The Science of Songwriting &#187; Form</title>
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		<title>Rotational Harmonies in Imperial Teen&#8217;s &#8220;You&#8217;re One&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2008/08/10/rotational-harmonies-in-imperial-teens-youre-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m guessing that some of you are not familiar with the band Imperial Teen.  I wasn&#8217;t either, but I&#8217;ve lately been listening to some of my girlfriend&#8217;s old CDs on my iPod, and one of their songs stood out  while my iPod was set to shuffle.

The song is called &#8220;You&#8217;re One&#8221; and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Effects of Repetition on Preferences</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2008/06/10/the-effects-of-repetition-on-preferences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you already know (since you were participants), I recently conducted a little pilot study to investigate some aspects of music cognition.  My main focus was how different levels of repetition factored into a listener&#8217;s preference for a song.  In other words, if a certain part of a song is repeated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combinatoriality in &#8220;Loser&#8221; by Beck</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/12/27/combinatoriality-in-loser-by-beck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/12/27/combinatoriality-in-loser-by-beck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When sitting down to write a song, I think harmony and melody are often at the forefront of one&#8217;s mind.  Musicians love to talk about harmony (the vertical component) and melody (the horizontal component) as two sides of the same coin.  That &#8220;coin,&#8221; of course, is the domain of pitch. 
But yet in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solos as Bridges</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/08/28/solo_bridges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: this post will be discussing face-melting guitar solos, so please don&#8217;t read any further unless you are OK with the melting of your face.  Heed your potential future forecasted in the album cover below:

I have to admit that I was recently jamming along with Deep Purple&#8217;s &#8220;Smoke on the Water&#8221; (from their album [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organicism in &#8220;Long Time Gone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/07/10/long-time-gone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/07/10/long-time-gone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I talked about organicism in a recent post about the Beatles, but I thought I&#8217;d return to the subject again.  In the Beatles tune (&#8220;With a Little Help From My Friends&#8221;), the chorus could be seen as constructed from the chords of the verse simply transposed down a whole step.  Of course, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flawed Form in &#8220;Rehab&#8221; by Amy Winehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/06/07/winehouse_rehab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/06/07/winehouse_rehab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amy Winehouse seems to be everywhere these days with her hit &#8220;Rehab&#8221; off her Back to Black album. I saw her play on the MTV movie awards and now she&#8217;s on the cover of Rolling Stone.  I admit I like the song; it&#8217;s catchy.  But does anyone agree with me that it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Tones in the Beatles&#8217;s &#8220;Help&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/27/beatles_help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/27/beatles_help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 16:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I talked a bit about the Beatles tune &#8220;With A Little Help From My Friends,&#8221; and I would like to follow up on that post with a look at yet another song by the Fab Four, their early hit from 1965 entitled &#8220;Help.&#8221;  The constructions of these two songs actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organicism in &#8220;With A Little Help From My Friends&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/24/beatles_friends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/05/24/beatles_friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 18:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did anybody see the finale to American Idol last night?  I&#8217;ll admit I saw part of it.  It&#8217;s not a show I watch, but my Netflix had run out, and I stumbled upon the finale and figured it was maybe worth watching.  Anyway, there was this cheesy medley of Beatles songs near [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Groupings of Three in the Pixies</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2007/01/18/pixies_triples/</link>
		<comments>http://www.midside.com/2007/01/18/pixies_triples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in a previous post how most music tends towards phrase structures in groupings of two, four, eight, etc.  Verses and choruses that are built on some sort of pattern in groups of three, on the other hand, are fairly rare.  That is, unless you are listening to music by the Pixies.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hypermeter in &#8220;The Christian Life&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.midside.com/2006/12/06/christian_life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trevordeclercq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first post to the blogosphere!  Since this blog was inspired by my good friend Christian Patterson, who runs his own fancy blog about photography, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss a special song called &#8220;The Christian Life.&#8221;
&#8220;The Christian Life&#8221; was writted by Ira and Charlie Louvin and first appeared on their [...]]]></description>
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