Musical Examples from the Textbook

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Chapter 1

Example 1-11: Dave Matthews “Satellite”

Chapter 2

Example 2-4: Gordon & Gruska “Friends and Lovers” (performed by Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson)

Chapter 4

Example 4-3: Hammond & Sayer “When I Need You”

Chapter 5

Example 5-13: Jacobs & Casey “Those Magic Changes” from Grease (Original Cast Recording)

Example 5-16a: Davis, Gordy, Hutch, and West “I’ll Be There”

Example 5-19b:  Jimi Hendrix “Hey Joe”

Chapter 6

Example 6-3b: Simon & Garfunkel “Scarborough Fair”

Chapter 7

Example 7-4c: Carole King “You’ve Got a Friend”

Example 7-8b: Rundgren “Can We Still Be Friends?”

Example 7-10: Joel “For the Longest Time” (also Example 33-2)

Example 7-15: Ascher and Williams “The Rainbow Connection” (performed by The Muppets)

Chapter 9

Example 9-16: Goffin and King “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”

Chapter 11

Example 11-4: Weiss, Peretti, and Creatore “Can’t Help Falling in Love”

Example 11-8c: Alicia Keys “If I Ain’t Got You”

Chapter 13

Example 13-20b:Elton & Rice “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” from The Lion King

Chapter 14

Example 14-15a: Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds  “I Said I Love You”

Example 14-19: Davis “Tune Up” (also Example 16-15a)

Chapter 15

Example 15-5a: John Lennon and Paul McCartney “The Long and Winding Road”

Example 15-6b: Jesse Harris “Don’t Know Why” (recorded by Norah Jones)

Chapter 16

Example 16-3: Cetera “If You Leave Me Now” (recorded by Chicago)

Example 16-7: MacDonald & Abrams: “Minute by Minute” (recorded by The Doobie Brothers)

Example 16-9a: Portnay & Angelo “WhereEverybody Knows Your Name” (theme from Cheers)

Example 16-9b: Rice & Webber “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” (from Jesus Christ Superstar-Original Cast Recording)

Chapter 17

Example 17-1b: Follese & Delaney “The Way You Love Me” (performed by Faith Hill)

Chapter 20

Example 20-5c: O’Sullivan “Alone Again, Naturally”

Example 20-7a: Carole Bayer Sager and Marvin Hamlisch “Nobody Does it Better” (from The Spy Who Loved Me)

Example 20-7b: Bricusse and Williams “Can You Read My Mind?” (from Superman: The Movie)

Example 20-8: Weiss & Thiele “What  Wonderful World” (performed by Louis Armstrong)

Example 20-10: Wonder “Lately”

Example 20-15c: Williams Star Wars (Main Theme)

Chapter 24

Example 24-9a: Bacharach & David “What the World Needs Now” (performed by Dionne Warwick)

Example 24-23: Foster, Graydon, & Champlin “After the Love Has Gone” (performed by Earth, Wind, and Fire)

Chapter 28

Example 28-6d: John Fogerty “Proud Mary”

Example 28-10: Miles Davis “So What?”

Chapter 31

Examples 31-7a-31-7b: Bryson & Goldberg “The Flintstones Theme Song”

Example 31-15: Hamilton “Cry Me a River”

Example 31-24b: Fox & Gimbel “Killing Me Softly with His Song”

Chapter 33

Example 33-7b Adele Adkins “Someone Like You”

Example 33-8 Henry Mancini "Days of Wine and Roses"