Английская Википедия:Because (Beatles song)

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"Because" is a song written by John LennonШаблон:Sfn (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and recorded by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on their 1969 album Abbey Road, immediately preceding the extended medley on side two of the record. It features a prominent three-part vocal harmony by Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, recorded three times to make nine voices in all.

Composition

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An electric harpsichord similar to the one used for "Because"

The song begins with a distinctive electric harpsichord intro played by producer George Martin. The harpsichord is joined by Lennon's guitar (mimicking the harpsichord line) played through a Leslie speaker. Then vocals and bass guitar enter.

"Because" was one of few Beatles recordings to feature a Moog synthesiser, played by George Harrison. It appears in what Alan Pollack refers to as the "mini-bridge",Шаблон:Sfn and then again at the end of the song.

According to Lennon, the song's close musical resemblance to the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was no coincidence: "Yoko was playing Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' on the pianoШаблон:Nbsp... I said, 'Can you play those chords backwards?', and wrote 'Because' around them. The lyrics speak for themselvesШаблон:Nbsp... No imagery, no obscure references."Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Musical structure

With regard to citing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", musicologist Walter Everett notes that "both arpeggiate triads and seventh chords in [[C-sharp minor|CШаблон:Music minor]] in the baritone range of a keyboard instrument at a slow tempo, move through the submediant to [[Neapolitan chord|Шаблон:MusicII]] and approach vii dim⁷/IV via a common tone."Шаблон:Sfn But while acknowledging the unusual shared harmonies, Dominic Pedler notes that the relationship is not the result of reversing the order of the chords as Lennon suggested.Шаблон:Sfn

"Because" concludes with a vocal fade-out on Ddim, which keeps listeners in suspense as they wait for the return to the home key of CШаблон:Music minor. Mellers states that: "causality is released and there is no before and no after: because that flat supertonic is a moment of revelation, it needs no resolution."Шаблон:Sfn The Ddim chord (and its accompanying melodic FШаблон:Music) lingers until they resolve into the opening Am⁷ chord of "You Never Give Me Your Money".

Recording

George Martin notes that on "Because": Шаблон:Blockquote

The main recording session for "Because" was on 1 August 1969, with vocal overdubs on 4 August, and a double-tracked Moog synthesiser overdub by Harrison on 5 August.Шаблон:Sfn As a result, this was the last song on the album to be committed to tape, although there were still overdubs for other incomplete songs. This approach took extensive rehearsal, and more than five hours of extremely focused recording, to capture correctly. McCartney and Harrison both said it was their favourite track on Abbey Road. Engineer Geoff Emerick said, "They knew they were doing something special, and they were determined to get it right."

A remixed version of the song, with the instrumentation removed so as to highlight the three-part harmony by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, was released on 1996's Anthology 3 and as an a cappella on 2006's Love. In 2016, the Anthology 3 mix became the first recording by the Beatles to appear in a film trailer when it was featured in the trailer for Luc Besson's film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The three-part backing vocals were also used in the 2023 Beatles song "Now and Then".

Personnel

Personnel per Ian MacDonald:Шаблон:Sfn

• John Lennon – triple-tracked harmony vocals (middle register), guitar
• Paul McCartney – triple-tracked harmony vocals (high register), bass
• George Harrison – triple-tracked harmony vocals (low register), Moog synthesiser
• George Martin – electric harpsichord

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