Song for Eternity. An Interpretation of The Beatles' Music

The aim of this paper is to specify the components of effect The Beatles group exerted on mass-culture in the 60s of 20. century. Their new music style possesses such features, which is able to address all people over the world. These features will be analysed while listening to their songs. The first question is what the roots of their songs are. It is obvious that they rooted in Western and Eastern traditional folkmusic, not only in rhythm and blues. The second question is if there is a modification of emotional effect of traditional tonality functions or not. The answer is that the Minor tonality has got such function as the Major does: joy, brightness, and happiness.The third feature is their striving after synthesis between classical and pop music, Finally, the fourth feature can be seen as a synthesis between eras and cultures, i.e. modern and Baroque.