New BBC show: Adele's music owes a debt to Franz Schubert
Adele's music owes a debt to Franz Schubert according to new BBC show analysing music 'from the Stone Age to the Digital Age'
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When Adele won six Grammys in February she made an emotional speech thanking her family for their support and the influence of her producer.
She might have thanked 19th century composer Franz Schubert although she may not have been aware of his influence on her work, according to a new BBC show that pledges to chart the history of music “from the Stone Age to the Digital Age”.
The Emmy, Brit and Bafta-winning composer Howard Goodall, who has written and presented a show charting the development of music from classical composers to pop stars, said: “I want to show a straight line that runs through to the present day,” he said.
He uncovered musical connections between classical composers and their pop and rock counterparts of the modern day, although admitted the current stars may be unaware of the debt.
His examples included linking Schubert and Adele, whose hit songs include Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You.
“Strip away the cultural differences, the clothes and anything that dates them, and there is a strong connection,” Mr Goodall said. “The musical shape, the architecture of it, the kind of chords, the way the accompaniment works and the voice sits on it, even the subject matter, are remarkably similar.”
He compared Adele’s work, including bestselling album 21, with Schubert’s song cycles such as The Winter Journey and Swan Song. “They’ve got catchy tunes, and are emotionally straightforward.”
I have always said that Someone Like You has more in common with songs in the 19th century than with music in our time.
It's quite funny 14 days ago I have learned that the basics of Somebody That I Used To Know von Gotye is a french/german xmas carol "Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann" (also the origin of "twinkle twinkle little star")
Hence the children-xylophone in the beginning and ending of STIUTK
Adele doesn't owe that old fart anything. Who is he again????
And what do you know about music?
If you look at her Someone Like You at home video you will see she has a bust of Beethoven a contemporary of Schubert in her living room.
But if I look at your location La La Land I don't expect much about culture from you although your fellow Steven Spielberg seems to know Schubert look up a 1.30 Minority Report.
I feel like this will happen more and more as music progresses simply because I feel like one day there just won't be any lyrics or songs to write, bc they have already been written.
“It’s not difficult to find a connection,” Mr Goodall said. “It’s about chord sequences. In the 17th century they had an obsession with finding chords that were magnetic to each other. Bach developed a particular downward stepping base of the chords. You can find that in Changes, Life on Mars and All the Young Dudes.”
In todays music they even use the pentatonic scale the music style before the major / minor scale.
Adele doesn't owe that old fart anything. Who is he again????
