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Milksap Montage
“This is a truly virtuosic creation: 52 pop singles in the United States that used the progression, arranged by key... Album covers, animated charts of the chord changes, and visual snippets demonstrating lyrical content flash by while you listen.” (http://www.pmgentry.net/blog/)

Tagg’s videos
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Produced 100%
by others
Teaching material: my editing, titling and/or comments
Teaching material: radically reworked, cut, commented and/or complemented
with some original material
In principle and in my opinion
largely original material

Atomic Power Montage
(45")
Example of how to make propaganda by putting sequences of stills to existing music sending a clear message.

Advetising IS Propaganda

Extract from Century of the Self, episode 1. Bernays explains origin of term ‘public relations’. (1:40)

Emmerdale Commutations

(short version; 5:10)
Pastoral idyll or place of great evil? Will any music fit this footage?

Emmerdale Commutations

(unabridged version; 9:02)
Pastoral idyll or place of great evil? Will any music fit this footage? With notation and musical commentary. (Ten Little Title Tunes pp. 503-519).

I Recall Bacall (1:30)

One of 21 exercises in writing typical detective themes, I Recall Bacall is set here to classic film noir footage. Silly credits are added. For info on detective music traits, check deckare in index to
Ten Little Title Tunes.

Intel Inside: musical meanings in an ad and a jingle
(5:22)
What does music communicate in this 1990s ad? What does the famous 4-note Intel Inside jingle mean and how does it work? Video illustration used in teaching Music and the Moving Image, Université de Montréal
Wow! This clip is top favourite for the folks at SemioticsInc!
Note
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11,700 views (Sept. 2008, 5 star rating)


Austria, Shampoo &
Gestural Interconversion
(3:22)

The Dream of Olwen. The Sound of Music and Timotei shampoo in one musicogenic semantic package. For further explanation check this text.


God, Queen, Jude & Nation

[3:34]
Extracts from Party at the Palace (Queen's Jubilee, 2002), with patent musicological and immanent social commentary. (Ten Little Title Tunes pp. 59-63).

Essentiel aux étudiants [1]

[3:24]
À quoi bon ce site et pourquoi faut-il remplir le formulaire d'inscription en ligne? =
What good is www.tagg.org and why do my students have to fill in the online form?

Why I do what I do
[3:12]
Feature from BBC Northwest Tonight (regional news, 1994) about teaching popular music
(incl. Kojak & Fernando).

Vocal Persona Commutations

(7:36) Examples of coherence
and incoherence between vocal, gestural, social and emotional
aspects of personality (text)

Voice ‘Recognition’ and Exasperation (
5:50)
Kafkaesque example of the thick brick wall of robotic customer ‘service’ provided by corporations.

More voice "recognition" here (1'33) and more to come...

From ‘Roaming’ Rip-offs to SIM cards
(4:50) For technophobic N. American residents wianting to save money on mobile phone costs in 90% of the world.

Resistance to hold music
(0:38)
The best strategy I have seen and heard to overcome the exasperating ‘normality’ of hold music.

Abba’s Fernando
‘A film of the book of the music’
Fernando the Flute
Other Fernando clips of interest
 1. Abba video (English, playback)
 2. Abba video (Swedish, playback)
 3. Abba on Japanese TV (English, playback)

 4. Abba on Polish TV (English, playback)
 5. Abba on La Noche De Lina Morgan TV show (English, live)
 6. Abba on the Midnight Special show (English, live)
 7. Abba on French TV (English, playback)
 8. Abba doing Fernando as National (electronics) ad (playback)
     • all 5 National adsAustralian TV ad (‘Abba are right’)
 9.
10.
11. Bizzare, over-quantised minimalist ‘videoke’ version (English)
12. Too fast but tolerable Brazilian karaoke version (English)
13. Live karaoke recording from Lincoln (California/English)
14. Webcam karaoke: ‘florecilla1965’ (Spanish, one 8ve down!)
14. Emancipated Mimi: ‘Talk About Killing A Song’
       Ethnographically stunning mobile phone
       recording in karaoke bar
15. Military band in front of Swedish parliament (instr.)
16. Guy Sebastian, live on Australian TV’s Abbamania.
       Same pitch as Frida, with pseudo-gospel melismas.
17. Franando (= crumbling): sharp political pastiche in Italian
      (with English accent): Irene Grandi on Crozza Italia (TV)
18. My Banda: Russian pastiche; critical Abba nostalgia
19. Abba-Review, German tribute band, Dortmund 2006
20.

Chapter 1: Breakfast at Ibotirama [8:41]
Introduction and personal contextualisation of the song.
Book pp. 9-14.

Between Chapters 1 and 2
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[8:29]
The tune with synchronised transcription + presentation of musemes.
Book, pp. 19-27.

Museme 1 (part 1)
[6:38]
Still, quiet, slow, open-landscape IOCM, with long held chords and simple melody.
Book pp. 29-35.

Museme 1 (part 2)
[7:31]
‘Ethnic’ IOCM pinpointing the wide-open spaces: ‘mañana turns’, tremolando charango, quena, etc. Book, pp. 29-35.

Museme 2
[7:08]
Proclamatory entrance and ‘dawning’ with IOCM from Zarathustra and others.
Book pp. 36-38.

Museme 3 (part 1)
[6:57]
Light, clean arpeggios I-vi, pizzicato effect, clink and glitter: angel harps, heaven and teenage devotion. Book pp. 38-42

Milksap Montage (1)
[9:11]
21 of 52 US pop recordings based on I-vi-ii/IV-V and illustrated with chords, teen angels, heartbreaks, girl groups, doowopers and
"all those goddam Bobbies".

Milksap Montage (2)
[7:36]
31 of 52 US pop recordings based on I-vi-ii/IV-V and illustrated with chords, teen angels, heartbreaks, girl groups, doowopers and
"all those goddam Bobbies".

Museme3 (part 4)
[4:08]
Summarises IOCM & PMFC from
Museme 3 Part 1 and
The Milksap Montage (1 & 2)
+ an important afterthought!

Museme 4 [9:25]
The ‘Boleo snare drum sound’ — Spanish? Military? Fateful?
Olde-Worlde? Storytelling?

Museme 5

Museme 6

Museme 7

Museme 8

Museme 9

Museme 10

 Kojak: 50 Seconds of Television Music
‘A film of the book of the music’


1: The Kojak Titles
[9:50]
• Original • Time code and sync
• Visual analysis
Book, pp. 245-286.


2. Score + Museme 2
 [9:48]
• transcription • sync
• offbeat filler • Moog ostinto
• woodwind stab
Book, pp. 132-143, 150-184.
‘AWESOME !!! What a fantastic idea! Definitely one of the most useful postings ever on 'You Tube' !! (monsterjazzlicks )

3: Museme 1
• horn whoops and heroes
• martial triplets
• propulsive repetition
Book pp. 185-210.

4. Harmonic language
• harmonic idiom and historical location • quartal harmony as ‘modern’ • 5 commutations
Book
, pp. 217-221

6. Telegraphic Urgency

Book, pp. 228-239
       
       

 Other online video: full-length and ESSENTIAL viewing!
Don't say you didn't know!...

Fabbri & Tagg at Torino  
sound not always present!
   
 Other online audio-video: shorts
   

  Currently downloadable PowerPoint Presentations


Which type of love?
Ideology and connotative
precision in TV music
A small methodological contribution
to developing a musicology
of the mass media.
Zipped PowerPoint presentation
(including ‘movie’),
revised for Semioticon,
August 2006 (6 mB)

       

Audio

Other online recordings by Philip Tagg
Music way out in the public domain and/or radically re-arranged.

 
The tragedy of human machines and mechanical humans (private enterprise).
The glory of machines at the service of humans (public enterprise).
 

Notes

Intel Inside: 4 syllables = 4 notes

One guy keeps objecting that there are five, not four notes in the jingle. Here’s why I think it’s just four!

Of course there's a “blang” before the four notes I discuss. I'm not dealing with that “blang” because (a) as Peter D Kaye says, it's more of an episodic marker to break from the preceding ad; and (b) anyhow it's a complex of timbres and of several more notes, not just one more. It's polyphonic and the four notes aren’t, unless you count what can be heard in the reverb. I decided to deal with the four notes of the actual jingle/transscansion itself, not with the three or four notes involved in the episodic marker. There's enough in the four notes of the transcanssion on its own for a 15-minute edutainment clip (more IOCM, more commutations, etc.). There’s a little more on the web about the episodic marker here and here...

Besides, as Walter Werzowa, the jingle’s composer, put it: “‘'Intel Inside’, that’s four syllables, so four notes”. More about the jingle (for the time being in Spanish only) in this article.

 

 

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