Brian Krock | Everyone is WRONG about Stairway to Heaven | s c o r e s t u d y 0 7 a @BrianKrock | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
This is the first part in a two video series on "Stairway." In this video, I felt that I had to clear up some bad takes by music YouTubers on the theory behind the iconic riff. In-so-doing, I had to discuss Bach's Bouree in E minor, a 12th-century liturgical drama called "The Play of Daniel," Mondeverdi's "Lamento della ninfa," Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack," and the Best Cry Ever.

I also give you a summary of research done by Alex Ross based on a lecture by György Ligeti about the Lamento Motif, and how humanity's musical imagination was shaped by the melodic contour of cries of despair.

It all makes sense. Promise.

0:00 - Intro
1:27 - Part One: Cancelled!
2:28 - Part Two: It is Bach, and it Rocks
8:58 - Part Three: The Harmony
15:08 - Part Four: Lamento
21:41 - Part Five: Conclusion (be thee neither Dazed nor Confused)

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Sources:
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Ross, Alex. Listen to This. Picador, 2011. Temple University Press, 1989.
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