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> <channel><title>Comments on: Great Visualizers: Mike Deal charts The Beatles</title> <atom:link href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles</link> <description>Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized!</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:11:21 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>By: Michael</title><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-41164</link> <dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:19:43 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/?p=1053#comment-41164</guid> <description>Beautiful work!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beautiful work!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Cecily Milloy</title><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-21665</link> <dc:creator>Cecily Milloy</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 21:42:47 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/?p=1053#comment-21665</guid> <description>Thank you, Beatles!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Beatles!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Alex Temple</title><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-19857</link> <dc:creator>Alex Temple</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:35:51 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/?p=1053#comment-19857</guid> <description>The notes B# and Cb don&#039;t exist only in music theory, but in actual notated music -- lots of it. For example, the notes of a Gb major scale are:
Gb - Ab - Bb - Cb - Db - Eb - F
You can&#039;t write the Cb as a B natural, because then the interval between do and fa would be incorrectly spelled as an augmented third rather than a perfect fourth, the interval between fa and sol would be incorrectly spelled as a diminished third rather than a major second, and so on.Notating a piece in the key of Cb Major would be a bit silly, though, since just about any musician on earth would find the equivalent B Major easier to read.And a note to the maintainer of the site:  major keys aren&#039;t any more &quot;harmonic&quot; than minor keys, and these key distributions don&#039;t tell us anything about how &quot;poppy&quot; the songs sound.  &quot;Please Please Me&quot; has an abundance of songs in E Major, sure, but E Major doesn&#039;t sound any &quot;poppier&quot; than any other major key.  What this really tells us is that the Beatles&#039; guitar chops weren&#039;t as advanced as they would become, so they wrote most of their songs in keys that are easy to play on the guitar.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The notes B# and Cb don&#8217;t exist only in music theory, but in actual notated music &#8212; lots of it. For example, the notes of a Gb major scale are:<br
/> Gb &#8211; Ab &#8211; Bb &#8211; Cb &#8211; Db &#8211; Eb &#8211; F<br
/> You can&#8217;t write the Cb as a B natural, because then the interval between do and fa would be incorrectly spelled as an augmented third rather than a perfect fourth, the interval between fa and sol would be incorrectly spelled as a diminished third rather than a major second, and so on.</p><p>Notating a piece in the key of Cb Major would be a bit silly, though, since just about any musician on earth would find the equivalent B Major easier to read.</p><p>And a note to the maintainer of the site:  major keys aren&#8217;t any more &#8220;harmonic&#8221; than minor keys, and these key distributions don&#8217;t tell us anything about how &#8220;poppy&#8221; the songs sound.  &#8220;Please Please Me&#8221; has an abundance of songs in E Major, sure, but E Major doesn&#8217;t sound any &#8220;poppier&#8221; than any other major key.  What this really tells us is that the Beatles&#8217; guitar chops weren&#8217;t as advanced as they would become, so they wrote most of their songs in keys that are easy to play on the guitar.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Joe Mahon</title><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-9367</link> <dc:creator>Joe Mahon</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:12:20 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/?p=1053#comment-9367</guid> <description>Max Sang wrote: &quot;Iâ€™m already suspicious about the accuracy of this. The â€œsong keysâ€ graphic contains the non-existent B#/Cb. There is no key, or note, called B# or Cb (B to C is a semitone). It looks cool, butâ€¦&quot;It actually says B/Cb. And while it sounds odd and counterintuitive, the key of C flat does exist in music theory.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Max Sang wrote: &#8220;Iâ€™m already suspicious about the accuracy of this. The â€œsong keysâ€ graphic contains the non-existent B#/Cb. There is no key, or note, called B# or Cb (B to C is a semitone). It looks cool, butâ€¦&#8221;</p><p>It actually says B/Cb. And while it sounds odd and counterintuitive, the key of C flat does exist in music theory.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: sam</title><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-8977</link> <dc:creator>sam</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:52:17 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/?p=1053#comment-8977</guid> <description>delightful.one small correction... the &quot;song keys&quot; graphic maps the keys of songs on each album; it doesn&#039;t directly show information about what songs are in what keys. so i believe you actually cannot use it to see the &quot;poppier, more harmonic numbers&quot;, on the poppier, more harmonic albums.cheerio.&lt;em&gt;[Thanks for the correct - David!]&lt;/em&gt;</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>delightful.</p><p>one small correction&#8230; the &#8220;song keys&#8221; graphic maps the keys of songs on each album; it doesn&#8217;t directly show information about what songs are in what keys. so i believe you actually cannot use it to see the &#8220;poppier, more harmonic numbers&#8221;, on the poppier, more harmonic albums.</p><p>cheerio.</p><p><em>[Thanks for the correct - David!]</em></p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Matt</title><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-8972</link> <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:57:18 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/?p=1053#comment-8972</guid> <description>looks like the site got knocked off line!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>looks like the site got knocked off line!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Max Sang</title><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-8959</link> <dc:creator>Max Sang</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:26:55 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/?p=1053#comment-8959</guid> <description>I&#039;m already suspicious about the accuracy of this. The &quot;song keys&quot; graphic contains the non-existent B#/Cb. There is no key, or note, called B# or Cb (B to C is a semitone).  It looks cool, but...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m already suspicious about the accuracy of this. The &#8220;song keys&#8221; graphic contains the non-existent B#/Cb. There is no key, or note, called B# or Cb (B to C is a semitone).  It looks cool, but&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: FÃ¡bio</title><link>http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/great-visualizers-mike-deal-charts-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-8933</link> <dc:creator>FÃ¡bio</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:10:06 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/?p=1053#comment-8933</guid> <description>Great stuff!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great stuff!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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