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1. Summarize, in your own terms, Everett’s tonal systems.

Everett’s System is based of o harmonic and voice-leading behaviors relating tomodes. The systems range rom a common mode to more com!le" entirelynon tonal ideas.

#. $n considering some o the e"am!les Everett has chosen or thediferent systems, does it seem that an entire song must all into asystem% &r, can a song wor' in multi!le systems%

 This system is based of the idea o ma(ority, in the way o trying to show therelations o many diferent songs. The entire system is a theory used toillustrate that roc' music can largely be classi)ed into various categories whene"amined. *aving that been said, an entire song could !ossibly all into onesystem but it would in no way be uncommon or a song to not meet those terms.$ would deem it li'ely that a song could have +ualities that would wor' inmulti!le systems when e"amined by diferent !eo!le.

. Everett admits sub(ectivity in his selection o albumssongs during the1/#000 years and im!erections in his scoring system or evaluatingcommon-!ractice harmonyvoice-leading deviation are the results stillsigni)cant and enlightening% *ow not or how so%

 2es, the results are still signi)cant. $t’s hard not to in(ect a small amount o!ersonal taste and bias when develo!ing a system that is viewed a new modernidea. The results are enlightening in the way that they !ose +uestions andre+uire thought to try and understand Everett’s )ndings. These +uestions andthoughts are all !art o the a!!eal o music analysis.

3. 4t the end o !aragra!h #, Everett suggests that hemay +uanti)ably claim that listeners o roc' music at the turn o themillennium 5!ossess many o the same tonal-hearing mechanisms thatwere !resent one, two, and three hundred years ago.6 7o his numberssu!!ort this% 4nd does this claim ma'e sense to you%

 The !aragra!h that this claim is mentioned in is s!ea'ing about how a !ersonwho is more amiliar with a certain style is going to !erceive the analysis o otherstyles diferently, the e"am!le being a student more amiliar with 8classical’music analysis. $ am assuming that this +uote is trying to say that listeners oroc' music at the turn o the millennium are hearing the music in the way a!erson 1- hundred years ago would, a very tonal sense o music. *is numbers

in some way su!!ort this. $ can’t say the claim entirely ma'es sense to me, $ eelas i he is trying to say !eo!le rom 1- hundred years ago would initially!erceive roc' in the way a listener in the late 0s-early #000s would based onthe lac' o non tonal analysis at that time.

9. Everett’s analysis o 5:onesome Tears6 is com!le" and highly detailed.;hat is the goal o this analysis% ;hat !oint is he trying to ma'e%

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   The goal o the analysis is to a!!reciate the com!le"ity that comes along withcategorizing this song using the system. The !oint Everett is trying to ma'e isillustrated in the )rst !aragra!h, he states that a song o this nature re+uires amore in de!th analysis but is a good e"am!le o the actors beyond normalcom!le"ities.