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Ratliff, B. (2016). Every song ever: twenty ways to listen in an age of musical plenty. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (High quality).flv

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Pink Floyd - Money (Official Music Video)

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This weeks padlet will be over Ratliff's concept of linking. Linking is how sounds can be combined, that would not normally fit the generic definition of rhythm. The book used the analogy of the growths of a crystal to describe linking, and linking can also be thought of as how the branches on an oak tree come to be in their disordered but artful array.

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"We have a compulsion to stay in our joy or our sadness, saying ' and then, and then, and then ' bumping from one topic area to another, stringing together ideas" (Ratliff, 2016)

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"And so we recognize implicitly the ways in which certain pieces of music show supreme organization, but seem a result of form cumulatively developed outward from the center, to extend the crystal metaphor-or from the beginning of a piece, since music moves linearly through time" (Ratliff, 2016)

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"Rhythm is an idea rather than a thing, a strategy rather than a set of existing entities" (Ratliff, 2016)

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"The heart-destroying slow third movement of his Piano Quintet no.2, touching down in variations on three melodic motifs-gives the impression of moving forward without circling back to step one, without externally imposed form or square movement" (Ratliff, 2016)

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Gabriel Fauré - Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115

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"The same motion over and over again, or series of motions: a descending minor scale, overlapping, made longer and longer, with slower-motion parts of that scale moving behind it, against the background of a bell tone and growing tremolos as notes begin to accumulate at the bottom" (Ratliff, 2016)

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Arvo Pärt Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten - Proms 2010