Books by Walter (Associate Professor of Music Everett

The Beatles as Musicians is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life-composition, performance, recording and reception histories-in its transcendent late period, from 1966 to 1970. Richly authoritative interpretations are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio and other sources.

This is a chronological study of the musical life of the Beatles, from 1956 up to 1965. The main focus is on the materials and structures of the Beatles' melodies, harmonies, counterpoint, rhythms, and the ways these portray the themes of their poetry. The book also addresses performance practice, recording procedure, historical context and more.