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    Shine On... You, Crazy Diamond
    Shine On... You, Crazy Diamond
    Shine On... You, Crazy Diamond
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    Shine On... You, Crazy Diamond

    By ZACCARIA FABIO

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    BOOK DESCRIPTION
    A short essay on the music of Pink Floyd.
    This is not just a purely biographical text or a general overview of the band from London. This is a work focused on the study of a specific composition, which restricts the scope for one of the most emblematic suite songs of Pink Floyd’s discography: Shine On, You Crazy Diamond.
    It is a starting point for a reflection on popular music in general, compared to the music of all time. Through a detailed analysis of the harmonic and melodic aspects of the first 5 parts of the song (Parts I-V), described in a virtual journey way, this work aims to testify to the compositional genius of Pink Floyd (with a whole chapter devoted to guitarist David Gilmour) which is empowered to gather within itself, today, all the key elements of the entire musical stylistic heritage of the last 60 years of popular music worldwide.
    Starting with a brief introduction to their artistic life and a historiographical record of the band, the text quickly turns into a work of research and study, based on three aspects: formal, compositional and evocative/emotional.
    It is a stimulating basis for study and research. For musicians (especially guitarists), for committed students or already professionals who wish to go deeper in the knowledge of the musical world of these artists, whether they want in a more general way, compare with other analysis of the composition made previously or subsequently. It is a useful tool for study and for a more conscious musical and less purely imitative performance.
    A reading, finally, that although containing different complex parts from the viewpoint of the musical technique is also addressed in large extent to the avid reader, although not a musician, allowing him to discover the immense, fascinating and complex "parallel world" that exists behind all that was listened to in life and is listened to every day...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBabelcube Inc.
    Release dateFeb 12, 2017
    ISBN9781507154540
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      Shine On... You, Crazy Diamond - ZACCARIA FABIO

      1974,

      FABIO ZACCARIA

      Shine on...You, Crazy Diamond.

      SHINE ON... YOU, CRAZY DIAMOND

      A musical journey on the inside with a theme of the iconic Pink Floyd, a band of which are the great repository of popular music of all time.

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      ISBN 978-60-5035-513-0

      This work is protected by and deposited in www.patamu.com under license number 18746

      Cover: The four notes in the score (Photo © Giusy Conte)

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      The scores shown and used in this e-book were commercially acquired by the author through the musicnote.it website and are under copyright of the holder of the discographic rights.

      The use made herein is purely demonstrative of the analytical theses exposed in the text.

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      Copyright © 2015 Fabio Zaccaria

      This work is protected by copyright laws.

      Any full or partial duplication without authorization is prohibited.

      If any errors or inaccuracies are found within the text, please send your suggestions or any other feedback to the author via the following e-mail address: [email protected]

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      Index

      INTRODUCTION

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      PREMISE

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      CHAPTER 1

      Historical and biographical data

      True pioneers of modern times

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      CHAPTER 2

      Pink Floyd’s Discography

      Historical and discographic data of the theme

      Topics for the analysis

      Formal analysis

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      CHAPTER 3

      Compositional and evocative-emotional analysis

      Short artistic biography

      Musical style and guitar style

      From Pink Floyd to Italian Pop: there is a bit of Gilmour in every guitarist in the world

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      CHAPTER 4

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      SOME NOTES ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      NOTES

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      This is an essay on the music of Pink Floyd, which was taken from a graduation thesis on popular Jazz Guitar, addressed to the general public.

      The following pages are not purely a historiographic or discographic text. I believe there is already a large amount of books written by different authors, each of which having dealt, over the years, with different subjects regarding this iconic musical band.

      Probably, not even the choice of a full album as an object of analysis could do justice to their entire discographic heritage, as it would result in any case, in a potentially controversial choice.

      I was forced, for obvious reasons of space and time, to synthesize, albeit with the necessary depth, the elements of the composition.

      So, I decided to approach the subject of an objective compositional analysis by focusing and restricting myself to a single iconic musical suite of the Floydian discography: ‘Shine on you Crazy Diamond’; thus aiming through this guideline to address  topics, although always focused on the musical evolution of these artists and their influence on the pop genre. Proposing myself to analyze a single vital piece, has enabled me to advance in depth, managing to bring to light topics for more debate and for better instrumental playing thanks to a detailed breakdown of the parts which, in any case, represents no more than a hyper-synthesis of the compositional mastery of Pink Floyd. On the other hand, it is detailed in a way it could never be with a full album for the above mentioned reasons.

      But why Pink Floyd?

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      The reasons for this choice are simple and easy to list:

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      The first aspect is represented by the fact that Pink Floyd was one of the pillars of my musical listening ever since I was a young boy. I began studying my wonderful instrument then. In fact, my musical inspiration on the guitar, probably due to my spiritual nature, leans naturally to the sound of their music, particularly from the post-Barrett period onwards.

      The sound and the state of mind that the band and particularly the guitarist, David Gilmour, express in their recordings, have always found a strong similarity with my inner way of understanding the expressiveness of the electric guitar, in a broad sense.

      Also the infinitely long notes, the delay effects, the slow but talking phrases, the depth of the sound, the sentimentality of the themes in their lyrics.

      The second aspect is the fact that the compositional mastery of Pink Floyd has a crosscutting effect in the history and evolution of popular music of all times as well as of today’s.

      Considering the moment of their artistic birth, they are usually cataloged in the underground times (early 60’s), and especially in the stylistic category of progressive rock of the 70’s and 80’s, along with other equally important and symbolic international artists (Genesis, King Crimson, Emerson Lake and Palmer and Jethro Tull).

      In fact, it is remarkable that however the recording production of Pink Floyd almost never showed major exhibitions of virtuosity of the musicians - aspect sometimes crucial in the characterization of these musical currents of the time – they always seemed to be significantly ahead of their time, - as it had already happened in times previous to this historical period, - both in terms of harmonic and melodic complexity on paper, as in terms of a complex experimentation with sound.

      It is also remarkable that that same recording production, widespread in terms of the stylistic evolution of the band, has continued over the years to represent a chapter apart from the rest of the musical world, not according to the standards of the different times but always incredibly present in any subsequent periods in which popular music has undergone relevant developments of style or gender. And that, incredibly, continued even in the separate ways taken in parallel by Waters on one side and Gilmour, Wright-Mason on the other, after the artistic separation occurred a few years after the band got together.

      Last, but not in terms of importance, I believe that the compositional inspiration of these artists - which can be observed both in a complete discography route, varied and articulated in time as well as, in my humble opinion, in a single piece belonging to a single album, as can be Shine on you Crazy Diamond - is empowered to gather within itself, today, all the key elements of the entire musical stylistic heritage of the last 60 or 70 years of popular music worldwide.

      PREMISE

      I like to think that all that will follow in the next pages could be read with extreme attention by a reader who is not a musician.  Even those long pieces in which technical aspects of music theory are analyzed, and that, for obvious reasons, may not be so accessible - not feeling discouraged before obscure concepts and without advancing by jumping pages as instinctively he may feel pushed to do so.

      I am convinced that some descriptions, although maybe not understandable from a technical point of view, may help even the non-musician reader to discover the immense

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