File:"Things We Said Today" by the Beatles 1964.ogg

"Things_We_Said_Today"_by_the_Beatles_1964.ogg (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 14 s, 56 kbps, file size: 93 KB)

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Description "Things We Said Today" by the Beatles 1964
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Authors are John Lennon and Paul McCartney; the copyright holder is Universal Music Group.
Source (WP:NFCC#4) The 2009 mono remaster of A Hard Day's Night (CD)
Date of publication 2 June 1964
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Things We Said Today
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To explicate with an audio sample what cannot be conveyed with prose alone:
  • According to the musicologist Alan W. Pollack, the B-flat chord heard is "an aggressive excursion away from the home key is abruptly aborted with a return to that very same firm, secure home base" and that the note "adds even more spice to both the melody and harmony." (Pollack, Alan W. (1996). "Notes on 'Things We Said Today'". soundscapes.info. Retrieved 24 May 2021.)
  • The musicologist Walter Everett describes the B-flat chord as "Chopinesque". (Everett, Walter (2001). The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514105-4 Page 247.)
  • The song's composer, Paul McCartney, describes the change from C to F to B-flat as "quite good", subverting the expectation of a change from F to F-minor. (Miles, Barry (1998) [1997]. Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-5249-6 Page 122.)
  • The musicologist Ian MacDonald writes that the song's sound is "uncharacteristic in its ominous mood" with an "obsessive horizontal pull to the tonic in its melody". (MacDonald, Ian (2007) [1994]. Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Third ed.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3 Page. 120.)
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Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) The file is 13.688 seconds long with fades in and out, which is less than 10% of the original 2 minutes and 35 seconds.
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Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Things We Said Today//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22Things_We_Said_Today%22_by_the_Beatles_1964.oggtrue

℗ & © 1964/2009 Calderstone Productions Limited (a subsidiary of Universal Music Operations Limited; until 2012 EMI Records Ltd.). Remaster copyright in association with Apple Corps Ltd.

Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Published by Northern Songs Ltd. (PRS/US administration by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP))

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