{"id":998,"date":"2005-04-20T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2005\/04\/20\/the-reason-why-pop-music-sounds-good\/"},"modified":"2005-04-20T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T10:43:00","slug":"the-reason-why-pop-music-sounds-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/the-reason-why-pop-music-sounds-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason why pop music sounds good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Music Theory I learned that Billy Joel has a very strong connection to Korean dance artist Banya.<br \/>\n<i>Billy Joel &#8211; This Night<\/i>&#8216;s chorus is actually Beethoven&#8217;s Piano Sonata No. 8 in c minor, Op. 13, II.<br \/>\n<i>Banya &#8211; Beethoven Virus<\/i> is based off Beethoven&#8217;s Piano Sonata No. 8 in c minor, Op. 13, III!<br \/>\nSo basically, <i>This Night<\/i> is a major version of the minor-key <i>Beethoven Virus<\/i>. Heh.<br \/>\nAnd of course we&#8217;ve also been listening to Bach&#8217;s Invention #13 in a minor, BWV 784&#8230; otherwise known as <i>TAKA respect for J.S.B. &#8211; No.13<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;and soon we&#8217;ll be studying Vivaldi&#8217;s Concerto No. 4 in f minor, RV 297, &#8220;WINTER&#8221;&#8230; otherwise known, of course, as <i>TAKA &#8211; V<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Music Theory I learned that Billy Joel has a very strong connection to Korean dance artist Banya. Billy Joel &#8211; This Night&#8216;s chorus is actually Beethoven&#8217;s Piano Sonata No. 8 in c minor, Op. 13, II. Banya &#8211; Beethoven Virus is based off Beethoven&#8217;s Piano Sonata No. 8 in c minor, Op. 13,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/the-reason-why-pop-music-sounds-good\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The reason why pop music sounds good<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}